Archbishop Dermot Farrell holding up the Decree designating St Mary’s as a Cathedral for the Archdiocese of Dublin
during the Mass on Friday, November 14 to mark the Bicentenary of St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: John McElroy. Pope Leo XIV gave Dublin a birthday present for the bicentenary of St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral that could not be matched. The prolonged and joyful applause when I had the privilege of announcing that Pope Leo had consented to my request and approved by decree that St Mary’s be designated as the Cathedral Church of our…
