Services

Sunday	Solemn Mass 11.00
Weekdays	Vespers 17.00 Tue; Benediction 17.00 Wed

Service Sheet www.cardiffmetropolitancathedralchoir.macwebsitebuilder.com/page/page/3855725.htm

Facilities

Website: www.cardiffmetropolitancathedral.org.uk

E-mail address: cardiff.met.cath@btinternet.com

Telephone
029 2023 1407

Music

Director of Music & Organist
Dr David Neville (since 1980)

Choir

The Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral has three choirs. The Boys' Choir was established in 1959, and in recent years two more choirs have been formed: The Junior Girls' Choir and The Senior Girls' Choir. All the Choristers of Wales’ National Roman Catholic Cathedral - the Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral of St David - are educated at St John’s College. Lay Clerks and Choral Scholars combine singing at the Cathedral with either teaching rôles at the Choir School, or postgraduate study at Cardiff University or the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, or freelance singing,

Organ

1959 Compton 3 manual, 48 stops

Pedal 10 stops, Choir 14 stops, Great 12 stops, Swell 12 stops

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N11907

Cathedral

Dean
Canon Peter Collins (since )

Archbishop
Most Rev Peter A Smith (since 2001)

Building

Following the arrival of 12,000 Roman Catholics fleeing the potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s, and more immigration thereafter, St David's was built as Cardiff's principal Catholic church in 1887. It became a cathedral and seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff in 1916. The Cathedral was severely damaged by bombing in 1941 but, following extensive restoration, it was re-opened in 1959. It is the focal point for the Catholic faith in Cardiff and the country as a whole. It is one of only three Roman Catholic Cathedrals in the UK which is associated with a choir school.