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Saint Pierre Cathedral of Geneva
The Cathedral Church of St Peter
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Genève
St. Pierre Cathedral
Saint Pierre Cathedral of Geneva Location of St. Pierre Cathedral in Switzerland
46°12′4″N 6°8′55″E
Location	Geneva
Country	Switzerland
Denomination	Protestant Church of Geneva
Previous denomination	Roman Catholic
Tradition	Calvinist
Website	St. Pierre Cathedral
History
Status	Parish church
Founded	4th century
Dedication	Peter the Apostle
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance
Style	Gothic

The nave of St. Pierre Cathedral

Saint Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland is a former Roman Catholic cathedral that was later converted into a Reformed Protestant Church of Geneva church during the Reformation.

It is known as the adopted home church of John Calvin, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Inside the church is a wooden chair used by Calvin.

History

Although this has been the site of a cathedral (a church that is the seat of a bishop) since the fourth century, the present building was begun under Arducius de Faucigny, the prince-bishop of the Diocese of Geneva, around 1160, in Gothic style. At the time of the Reformation, the interior of the large, cruciform, late-gothic church was stripped of its rood screen, side chapels, and all decorative works of art, except the stained glass, leaving a vast, plain interior that contrasts sharply with the interior of surviving medieval churches that remain Roman Catholic. A Neo-Classical main façade was added in the 18th century. In the 1890s, Genevans redecorated a large, side chapel adjacent to the cathedral's man doors in a polychrome, gothic revival style. The German painter Konrad Witz painted an altarpiece, the so-called St. Peter Altarpiece, for the cathedral in 1444, now in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, which contains his composition, the Miraculous Draught of Fishes.^{[citation needed]}

Currently, every summer a German Protestant minister is present, making it possible to hold bilingual services and meetings of both German and French Protestant worshippers.^{[citation needed]}

Theodore Beza, French Calvinist Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar, and successor to John Calvin, was buried in St. Pierre in 1605.

On Whit Saturday, 30 May 2020, after nearly 485 years^[1] a Catholic Mass was to be celebrated in the cathedral as a symbol of ecumenical hospitality.^[2] Because of COVID-19, the Catholic Mass was postponed and was celebrated on Saturday, 5 March 2022.^[3]

Bells

Chapelle of St. Pierre Cathedral

No.	Name	Year	Caster, Gussort	Durchmesser (mm)	Mass (kg)	Strike tone	Tower
1	La Clémence	1902	H. Rüetschi, Aarau	2190	6238	g0	North
2	L'Accord	1845	S. Treboux, Vevey	1560	2080	c1	South
3	La Bellerive	1473	Nicolas Guerci	1400	1500	e1	North
4	La Collavine	1609		1140	1012	g1	South
5	L'Espérance	2002	H. Rüetschi, Aarau	930	475	a1	South
6	L'Eveil	1845	S. Treboux, Vevey	750	261	c2	South
7	Le Rappel	15th century		590	133	e2	South
I	La Cloche des Heures	1460		1290	1610	e1	Spire
II	Le Tocsin	1509		760	270	cis2	South

Gallery

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  Spire of St. Pierre Cathedral

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  Front entrance of the Cathedral at night

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  John Calvin's chair

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  Jet d'Eau from the north tower of the Cathedral

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  Ceiling of the Maccabees Chapel

See also

• List of carillons

References

1. 
   

After the temporary suspension of the Mass by a city council decision on August 10, 1535, no Catholic Mass had taken place. (Publication de L'Association pour la Restauration de Saint-Pierre, Saint-Pierre Ancienne Cathédrale de Genève, Geneva, 1982, p. 67)

Catholic Mass in Cathedral of the Reformed (in German), Deutschlandfunk, 31 May 2020.

3. https://www.cath.ch/newsf/geneve-la-premiere-messe-a-la-cathedrale-st-pierre-en-mars/

Further reading

• Bonnet, Charles (February 1987), "The Archaeological Site of the Cathedral of Saint Peter (Saint-Pierre), Geneva", World Archaeology, Taylor & Francies, Ltd, 18 (3): 330–340, doi:10.1080/00438243.1987.9980010, JSTOR 124589

External links

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• Official St Pierre Cathedral website—(in French)
• Izi.travel: Cathedral visitor's guide—(in English)
• Tibet.ca: "The Dalai Lama visits to the Cathedral" (1999)—(in English)

Images

• Gotik-romanik.de: photos of Cathedral
• Rawle.org: Aerial view of entire Cathedral
• UCLA.edu: Cathedral's stained glass windows
• Musiqueorguequebec.ca: Cathedral organ

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• Gothic architecture in Switzerland
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