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| | St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Dublin possesses two cathedrals, but unusually, both belong to one faith, the minority (Autonomous branch of the Church of England in Ireland) Church of Ireland, which up until 1871 had been the established religion in Ireland. |
 | | As a result, few expect a new cathedral to be erected, with instead the Pro-Cathedral at some stage likely to be raised to full cathedral status, as happened to St. Peter's Catholic Pro-Cathedral in Belfast late in the twentieth century. |
 | | Archbishops of Dublin came to be major players in the formation of Irish policy in the independent era, and none more so than (Click link for more info and facts about John Charles McQuaid) John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin from the 1940s to the early 1970s. |
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