Cathedrals: from bishops' seats to tourist hotspots
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How Do Cathedrals Work?
The word diocese was originally a roman administrative nit. The church adopted it for the area of land that the bishop runs and all the churches in it. And a a cathedral is a bishop's church, or the bishop's church,. So why do we actually have cathedrals?Why were they built? Why not just build a smaller church?
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