difference between Cathedral and basilica?

Answer 1

A cathedral is dedicated to a saint
A basilic is dedicated to the virgin mary

It is not a question of architecture but a question of dedication

Answer 2

A basilica: a term sometimes used in reference to a cathedral for ceremonial reasons, although traditionally denoting an earlier form of structure. The Basilica is the archetype of succeeding cathedral forms, the most famous of which is the early Saint Peter's in Rome. A Basilica consists of a Nave bordered along its side by Aisles with a Clerestory and an Apse.

Cathedral: A cathedral is essentially a large church. It is a term used in in the Catholic and high Protestant churches (Anglican and Lutheran) to signify an especially important church, in the Catholic and Anglixan church it is the seat of a diocese and located by the bishop's house. Cathedrals were built during the late medieval era, many in the Gothic style. These well endowed churches are able to support choirs and some of the modst important boy choirs are associated with important cathedrals.

Answer 3

The answer that was given in French is the correct one. Churches, cathedrals, basilicas basically follow the church hierarchy.

So:
a Priest says Mass in a church
a Bishop says Mass in a cathedral
the Pope says Mass in a basilica (when he's visiting)

Answer 4

* “In shape, the Roman basilica became a extensive roofed corridor erected for transacting business enterprise and getting rid of legal concerns. Such homes usually contained indoors colonnades that divided the gap, giving aisles or arcaded areas at one or the two sides, with an apse at one end (or much less in lots of cases at each and each end), the place the magistrates sat, in lots of cases on a somewhat raised dais.” Turning to extra religious concerns, a basilica refers “to a extensive and significant church that has been given particular ceremonial rites via the Pope.” you could study extra with regard to the particular (and admittedly, enormously imprecise) rites right here. This is clever, because of the fact JP 2 did as quickly as visit Ta Pinu.And right here cometh the cathedral:“A cathedral is a Christian church that is composed of the seat of a bishop. in extra specific words it quite is a spiritual construction for worship, quite of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such because of the fact the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox and a few Lutheran church homes, which serves as a bishop’s seat, and for that reason because of the fact the customary church of a diocese.” As for architectural concerns, they curiously variety: “even nevertheless a cathedral could be among the grandest of church homes interior the diocese…a cathedral church could be a modest shape. Early Celtic and Saxon cathedrals, as an instance, tended to be of diminutive length, as is the Byzantine so-called Little Metropole Cathedral of Athens.”

Answer 5

I think basilica is just the italian word for cathedral.

Answer 6

Basilique : Nom donné dans l'antiquité aux églises qui, à la différence des simples maisons transformées en lieux de culte, étaient construites sur le plan des basiliques civiles de l'Empire romain : un rectangle terminé par une ou plusieurs absides. Titre conféré par le pape à certains sanctuaires (ex. Lisieux, Montmartre, Vézelay...).

Cathédrale C'est l'église principale d'un diocèse où se trouve le siège de l'évêque du lieu, symbole de son autorité et de sa mission apostolique. Il y en a généralement une par diocèse, parfois deux (dans l'Yonne, Auxerre et Sens).

Answer 7

I don't think there is any difference. I think that it is just 2 different languages for the same thing.