Saint Peter in Chains Cathedral

The Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains ( St. Peter in Chains Cathedral) in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the Episcopal Church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati. It was built in the years 1841 to 1845 in the classical style.

History

The Catholic faith was brought mainly by German and Irish immigrants to Cincinnati. Bishop's seat was the city in 1821, the Metropolitan seat in 1850. Initiator of Kathedralbaus under the patronage Peter in Chains was John Baptist Purcell, Bishop and Archbishop of Cincinnati from 1833 to 1883. He consecrated the church on November 2, 1845., 1957, the cathedral was extended to the west and got the large altar wall mosaic.

Architecture

The Peter 's Cathedral is an originally rectangular three-aisled hall church with a slightly elevated central nave. The two transepts were added in the expansion in 1957. All ceilings are coffered. Corinthian columns separate the ships. The portal is presented with twelve Corinthian columns, a gable portico loose. He wears the tower, which consists of six octagonal tapered bullets and a narrow apex. Architectural model was especially St. Martin-in -the-Fields in London.

Equipment

The cathedral has a processional cross with a corpus of Christ Benvenuto Cellini. The portal is made of solid bronze, the Stations of the Cross are mosaic images. Dominating the entire wall mosaic on the back wall of the sanctuary. It was created by the German artist Anton Wendling Church in 1957 and shows Christ as Pantokrator, the Peter the keys of the kingdom handed over ( Matthew 16:19 EU), flanked by smaller scenes of the two captivities of Peter in Jerusalem ( Acts 12:1-17 EU) and with Paul in the Mamertine prison in Rome.