St John'S Catholic Cathedral, Portsmouth

St John’s Cathedral was built in 1882 to provide for the steadily increasing number of Catholics living in Portsmouth.

The Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Portsmouth, England. It is the mother church of the Portsmouth Diocese and seat of the Bishop of Portsmouth, currently Bishop Philip Egan. It was was dedicated on 10 August 1892.

The diocese is within the Metropolitan Province of Southwark. It includes the whole of Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands, and also parts of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Dorset, stretching from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in the north to the island of Jersey (near the French coast) in the south.