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cathedrals

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The buildings housing churches in a Christian system that have an episcopal form of government, where the church is the primary church in a diocese or the seat of a diocesan bishop, archbishop, primate, patriarch, or pope. They are generally grandiose structures and house the "cathedra" or throne of the bishop.

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