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The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity was originally a Roman Catholic church of St. Bernard's Monastery built in the 18th century. The monastery church was completed under the direction of architect Paweł Giżycki in 1789. In the second half of the 19th century, the complex was taken away from the St. Bernards and given to the Orthodox community in Lutsk. In the 1870s the church was rebuilt, a bell tower was added above the narthex and the dome above the crossing. Since 1880, the church has served as an Orthodox cathedral.

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary is a neo-Gothic Catholic Church at Moscow's center, that serves as the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Moscow. Located in the Central Administrative Okrug, it is one of three Catholic churches in Moscow and the largest in Russia. The construction of the cathedral was approved in 1894 by the Ministry of Internal Affairs under Tsarist Russia. Groundbreaking was in 1899; construction work began in 1901 and was completed ten years later. Three-aisled and built from red brick, the cathedral is based on a design by architect Tomasz Bohdanowicz-Dworzecki. The style was influenced by Westminster Abbey and Milan Cathedral. In 2002 it was elevated to the status of cathedral. Following an extensive and costly program of reconstruction and refurbishment, the cathedral was reconsecrated in 2005. In the 21st century, the cathedral is once again the setting for regular liturgical celebrations in multiple languages—Russian, Polish, Korean, English, French, Spanish, Armenian and Latin—as well as benefit concerts featuring organ and church music. The cathedral is listed as a heritage building in the Russian Federation, and is a protected monument.

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was originally a Dominican church that was built in the years 1749-1779 according to the design of August Moszyński. In 1945 it was closed by the communists, and from 1959 it was turned into a warehouse. Despite the efforts of the original owners - Roman Catholics - to recover it, it was handed over to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1989.

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is the Catholic Cathedral of Thessaloniki. The building was completed in 1902 according to a design by Vitaliano Poselli.

The Kasper Icon Cathedral of the Mother of God is an Orthodox cathedral whose construction began in 1904 with the architect Fyodor Eppinger. The construction was supervised by the municipal architect Eugene Shtukenberg. The church was consecrated in 1908. From 1934 to 1992, with a brief interruption during the Second World War, the church was closed. From 1994 to 2004, the outer part of the cathedral was rebuilt. In 2010, the restoration of the interior was completed.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ is a Russian Orthodox church, built between 1998 and 2000. The cathedral was built by the architect from Tiraspol, P. Yablonskiy, in the style of churches of ancient Russia in the 17th century with a low drum dome.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ was originally a Jesuit church built in the late Baroque style from 1755 to 1770 by the Jesuit architect Michał Radzyminski. In 1773, Pope Clement XIV abolished the Jesuit order and closed down all its institutions in Poland and Russia. In 1782, the church and monastery were transferred to the Greek Catholic order of Basilians, and in 1840, following the order's conversion to Orthodoxy, the monastery became Orthodox. In 1921, however, after the annexation of Volhynia to Poland, the church was again transferred to the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic parish of the church functioned until 1945 because during the Second World War a bomb explosion damaged the northern sacristy and the presbytery. In 1991, the church was again transferred to the Orthodox community.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of Jesus is the Albanian Orthodox Cathedral of Shkodër. The building was completed in 2000, near the site of a wooden church, which was severely damaged by an attack in August 1998. The present stone building consists of a large nave with several domes and a bell tower separate from the main body.

The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary was built between 2008 and 2011. The cathedral was built as part of a project to create the Konotop historical and cultural complex. The Ukrainian diaspora from various countries made a huge contribution to the construction of the cathedral. Near the cathedral, there is a memorial panel in honour of the defenders of the city during the siege of Konotop in 1659.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God is the cathedral of the Greek Catholic Eparchy in Košice. The church was built between 1882 and 1898 according to the design of William Kolatsek and the builder Ludovit Schmidt. It is built in a neo-Romanesque style. An iconostasis and a pulpit were installed in 1901. The church became a cathedral after the establishment of the Košice Apostolic Exarchate in 1997.