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Basilica Cathedral of St. Cecilia
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Location Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec
Country Canada
Denomination Roman Catholic
Weekly attendance 1250 (in 2022)
Website www.basilique-cathedrale.com
History
Authorising papal bull 1855
Status Cathedral, minor basilica
Dedication Saint Cecilia and Christ the King
Dedicated February 9, 1991
Consecrated 1985
Cult(s) present Roman Catholic
Past bishop(s) Luc Cyr
Architecture
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Louis-Napoléon Audet

Henri Labelle Eugène Perron

Jean-Marie Lafleur
Architectural type Norman-Gothic
Style Neo-Gothic
Completed 1935
Specifications
Capacity 1500
Nave width 26 m (85 ft 4 in)
Number of floors 2
Number of towers 2
Number of spires 3
Materials Concrete, rocks
Bells 6
Tenor bell weight 10,043 lb (4,555 kg)
Administration
Parish St. Cecilia
Diocese Valleyfield

The Basilica Cathedral of St. Cecilia (Basilique-Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile in French) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and a cathedral dedicated to St. Cecilia located in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada. The basilica is under the circumscription of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Valleyfield. The basilica was decreed on February 9, 1991.

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