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The Basilica of St Joseph Proto-Cathedral in the historic city of Bardstown, Kentucky was built between the years of 1816 and 1819 and was the first Catholic cathedral in the United States west of the Allegheny Mountains. During the church’s time as the cathedral mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown, the pastor of the Basilica of St. Joseph was Benedict Joseph Flaget, who became Bardstown’s first Bishop. The historic church is open to visitors seven days a week and contains several fine paintings, gifts of Pope Leo XII and Francis, the King of the two Sicilies.
310 W Stephen Foster Ave, Bardstown, KY 40004, Phone: 502-348-3126
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