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The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul was built in the 16th century in the Renaissance style and was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1646-1648. In 1672, during the Turkish occupation of these lands, the church was transformed into a mosque and a minaret was built. After the recapture of Kamenets by Poland on 23 September 1699, the minaret was not destroyed, as stipulated in the Treaty of Karlovice of 26 January 1699. In order to preserve the provisions of the treaty and, at the same time, to remove the symbol of Ottoman rule, a statue of the Virgin Mary imported from Gdansk was placed on the minaret on 10 May 1756.

The Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul was built between 1616 and 1780 and belonged to the Jesuit order. The architect M. Gints drew up the plan of the building, which was later completed and modified by architect Djakomo Briano. In the second half of the 1630s, the construction of the church in the Renaissance style was completed. On 14 June 1724, a fire broke out and severely damaged the church. In the following years, until 1730, a thorough restoration was carried out with the help of the architect Paweł Giżycki, a Jesuit. In order to preserve the walls weakened by the fire, the church was built with the galleries around the narthex, two towers were erected. The church took on a classical appearance. In 1773, Pope Clement XIV announced the abolition of the Jesuit order. In 1787, the church was elevated to cathedral status.

This iconic 17th-century church is the most prominent in the Lithuanian city of Siauliai. It is famed for its architectural style of Renaissance Mannerism. It contains defensive features as well due to the wealth it used to contain. This church marks the beginning of the pilgrimage trail to the Hill of Crosses.

The cathedral of Salerno was built in Romanesque style between 1080 and 1085, and then modified several times. The façade and the bell tower, redesigned in Baroque style, were restored to their original appearance in the 1950s and are now of great historical and artistic value. They are an important testimony to the Byzantine-Norman fusion of the period.

The Cathedral of San Feliú de Llobregat is the work of the architect Josep Ros i Ros. The old parish church, a 19th-century work designed by Francisco Renart, was destroyed in July 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. All that remained of the old church was the bell tower. In 1939 the foundation stone of the current building was laid and in 1940 construction work began.

The Cathedral of Santa María, popularly known as the Old Cathedral, is a Gothic Catholic temple built from the 13th century. Since 2015 the building is a UNESCO World Heritage monument as part of the "Camino de Santiago: French Road and Northern Roads of Spain".

The Cathedral of St Fachanan is an ancient cathedral that was originally an abbey church. St Fachanan founded a monastery on the site in the 6th century. The monastery went through a difficult period in the Middle Ages, being looted and burned. Rebuilt several times, the abbey church was repaired to its present form in the 1830s. The transept was fitted with a glass roof in 2005 to protect the remains of the three high crosses moved there.

The 18th-century Cathedral of St John the Baptist is Sligo's Anglican cathedral. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception was almost certainly built on the site of a medieval hospital and parish church in honour of the Trinity, founded in the 13th century. Part of the medieval structure is included in the present west tower. When the German-born Irish architect Richard Cassels (1690-1751) came to Sligo in 1730 to design Hazelwood House for the Wynne family, he was also commissioned to build St John's Church.

The Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne is the Catholic cathedral in Cork. It was built in 1808 in the Neo-Gothic style and was badly damaged by fire in 1820. Restoration was carried out by George Richard Pain in 1818. In 1964 the cathedral church complex was enlarged and the tower, which reaches a height of 80 metres, was built.

The Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi was built between 1936 and 1939, during the Italian occupation of part of the Aegean islands (1912-1945). It is the Catholic Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Rhodes and was designed by the architect Armando Bernabiti. The frescoes on the walls of the choir are painted by Pietro Gaudenzi.