Gurk Cathedral

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| native_name = {{unbulleted list | {{native name|de|Pfarr- und ehemalige Domkirche Mariae Himmelfahrt}} | {{native name|de|Dom zu Gurk}} | {{native name|sl|Bazilika v Krki}}}}

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| location = Gurk, Carinthia

| country = Austria

| denomination = Catholic

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| founded date = {{circa|1140}}

| founder = Bishop Roman I of Gurk

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| consecrated date = 1200

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| functional status = Cathedral

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| style = Romanesque

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| diocese = Diocese of Gurk

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| bishop = Josef Marketz

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Gurk Cathedral ({{langx|de|Dom zu Gurk}}, officially Pfarr- und ehemalige Domkirche Mariae Himmelfahrt, {{langx|sl|Bazilika v Krki}}) is a Romanesque pillar basilica in Gurk, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The former cathedral and current co-cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Gurk was built from 1140 to 1200. It is one of the most important Romanesque buildings in Austria.[https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/32/ UNESCO], Gurk Cathedral

With its consecration in 1174, the grave of Saint Hemma of Gurk was relocated there from former Gurk Abbey, a Benedictine nunnery she had founded in 1043 and which was dissolved by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg in 1070/72, in order to fund the newly established Gurk diocese and the construction of the cathedral. The cathedral chapter established in 1123 moved to Klagenfurt in 1787.