St. Gertrude's Cathedral (Dutch: Sint-Gertrudiskathedraal) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, is the seat of the Archbishop of Utrecht and the mother church of the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands (and of the wider Old Catholic Communion).
It is located at Willemsplantsoen, at the edge of the city centre. The current church building was constructed between 1912 and 1914, and was designed by E.G. Wentinck (nl) in Neo-Romanesque style, echoing St. Mary's Church, which formerly stood on the , very close by.
In the altar there are more than 1700 relics in hundreds of containers. Underneath these relics there is supposed to be a piece of a rib of St. Willibrord.
St. Gertrude's Chapel
The predecessor to the current building, called St. Gertrude's Chapel (Dutch: Gertrudiskapel), has been preserved, and is attached to the current cathedral. It was built in 1634 within a mediaeval house as a clandestine church for the members of the Roman Catholic parish of the Geertekerk (nl) (the original St. Gertrude's Church, now in the possession of the Remonstrants).
See also
Old Catholic Church
Union of Utrecht (Old Catholic)
References
External links
Website of St. Gertrude's Cathedral and the Old Catholic parish of Utrecht "In de Driehoek" (Dutch)
Old Catholic church buildings
Churches in Utrecht (city) Cathedrals in the Netherlands Churches completed in 1914 Catholicism in the Netherlands Catholic cathedrals in Europe 20th-century churches in the Netherlands