Oviedo Cathedral

Cathedral of the Holy Saviour Catedral de San Salvador (in Spanish)
Façade of the cathedral.
Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic Church
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Cathedral, Minor basilica
Leadership	Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes
Location
Location	Oviedo, Spain
Geographic coordinates	43°21′45.30″N 5°50′35.09″W
Architecture
Architect(s)	Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón
Architectural type	Church
Architectural style	Gothic, Romanesque, Baroque, Renaissance
Groundbreaking	781
Direction of façade	O
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Type	Cultural
Criteria	ii, iv, vi
Designated	1985 (9th session)
Parent listing	Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias
Reference no.	312
Extensions	1998
State Party	Spain
Region	Europe and North America
Website
Official Website

The Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Saviour or Cathedral of San Salvador (Spanish: Catedral Metropolitana Basílica de San Salvador, Latin: Sancta Ovetensis) is a Roman Catholic cathedral and minor basilica in the centre of Oviedo, in the Asturias region of northern Spain.

Many styles of architectural styles were used in building the cathedral. They include Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance. It began as a large Pre-Romanesque basilica in the present location of the Gothic cathedral. That first building was built by order of King Alfonso II of Asturias.

History

The Cathedral was founded by King Fruela I of Asturias in 781 AD. In 802, his son Alfonso II of Asturias made it bigger. He made Oviedo the capital of the Kingdom of Asturias.

People buried at Oviedo Cathedral

• Saint Eulogius of Córdoba
• Fruela I of Asturias
• Munia Lopez de Gascogne, wife of Fruela I
• Teresa de Leon, wife of Sancho I of León
• Jimena De Pamplona, wife of Alfonso III of León
• Saint Leocadia, relics later moved from Oviedo
• Saint Pelagius (912-925)

References

• Collins, W. W. (1909). "Oviedo". Cathedral cities of Spain. New York: Dodd, Mead and company.
• de Caso, Francisco (1999). La Catedral de Oviedo. Historia y Restauración (in Spanish). Vol. I. Cuenca Busto, Cosme; García de Castro Valdés, César; Hevia Blanco, Jorge; de la Madrid Álvarez, Vidal; Ramallo Asensio, Germán. Oviedo: Ediciones Nobel S.A. ISBN 84-89770-83-2.
• de Caso, Francisco (1999). La Catedral de Oviedo. Catálogo y bienes muebles (in Spanish). Vol. II. Cuenca Busto, Cosme; García de Castro Valdés, César; Hevia Blanco, Jorge; de la Madrid Álvarez, Vidal; Ramallo Asensio, Germán. Oviedo: Ediciones Nobel S.A. ISBN 84-89770-84-0.
• Carrero Santamaría, Eduardo (2003). El conjunto catedralicio de Oviedo en la Edad Media. Arquitectura, topografía y funciones en la ciudad episcopal (in Spanish). Oviedo: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos. ISBN 978-8-4896-4568-4.
• Carrero Santamaría, Eduardo (2007). "La ciudad santa de Oviedo. Un conjunto de iglesias para la memoria del rey". Hortus Artium Medievalium (in Spanish). 13. Zagreb: Institute of Research Center for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages: 275–289.
•  "Diocese of Oviedo" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Oviedo" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Other websites

• Página Oficial de la Catedral
• Mirabilia Ovetensia:Ficha, reconstrucciones infográficas y visita virtual al monumento Archived 2012-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
• Campanas de la Catedral de Oviedo
• Catedral en Google Earth Archived 2011-12-21 at the Wayback Machine