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Cathedral of St. Paul (Erie, Pennsylvania)

church in Pennsylvania, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ15615989 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Cathedral of St. Paul is an Episcopal cathedral in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania. St. Paul's Church was founded on St. Patrick's Day in 1827. The church became the cathedral for the Diocese of Erie on February 21, 1915. The diocese changed its name to Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1981.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cathedral of St. Paul (Erie, Pennsylvania)” is church in Pennsylvania, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cathedral, Paul and Erie, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1827, 1915, 1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1827. For this dossier, Cathedral, Paul and Erie is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “church in Pennsylvania, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15615989. Authority coordinates are 42.128, -80.088. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1827, 1915 and 1981.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Cathedral of St. Paul (Erie, Pennsylvania)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Cathedral of St. Paul (Erie, Pennsylvania) primary sources, Cathedral of St. Paul (Erie, Pennsylvania) archive and Cathedral research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Cathedral of St. Paul (Erie, Pennsylvania)”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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This entry incorporates text from “Cathedral of St. Paul (Erie, Pennsylvania)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.