Tours Cathedral

Tours Cathedral
Cathedral of Saint Gatianus of Tours
French: Cathédrale Saint-Gatien de Tours
Tours Cathedral
Location	Tours, Indre-et-Loire
Country	France
Denomination	Roman Catholic Church
Website	www.paroisse-cathedrale-tours.fr
History
Status	Cathedral
Dedication	Gatianus of Tours
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architectural type	church
Style	French Gothic
Groundbreaking	1170 (1170)
Completed	1547 (1547)
Specifications
Length	100 metres (330 ft)
Width	28 metres (92 ft)
Number of towers	2
Tower height	68 metres (223 ft) (north) 69 metres (226 ft) (south)
Administration
Archdiocese	Tours
Parish	St. Maurice
Clergy
Archbishop	Bernard-Nicolas Aubertin (fr)

Tours Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Gatien de Tours) is a Roman Catholic church located in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France, and dedicated to Saint Gatianus. It is the seat of the Archbishops of Tours, the metropolitan cathedral of the Tours ecclesiastical province. It was built between 1170 and 1547. At the time construction began, the church was located at the south end of the bridge over the river Loire, on the road from Paris to the south-west of France. It has been a classified monument historique since 1862.^[1] Since 1905 it has been owned by the French State, with the Catholic Church having the exclusive rights of use.^[2]