St. Patrick Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of El Paso. The cathedral is located at 1118 N. Mesa Street in El Pase, Texas, in the United States. It is the mother church for the diocese.

The cathedral parish operates Cathedral High School and St. Patrick Elementary School, adjacent to the cathedral.

History

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1900 to 2000

By the early 1910s, the mining industry in El Paso was drawing in waves of Catholic immigrants. At that time, the Catholics in the El Paso Valley were split into three dioceses. Catholic leaders needed to raise $150,000 to build a new church to handle the increased population. They announced that the first group to raise $10,000 would get to name the new cathedral.

The winner of the naming contest in 1913 was a group of Irish-Catholic women who chose the name "St. Patrick". The church was designed by Barnett, Haynes & Barnett, an architectural firm from St Louis, Missouri.

In March 1914, Pope Pius X established the Diocese of El Paso. The groundbreaking for St. Patrick's Church was in April 1914 and the cornerstone was laid in July 1914. In June 1915, Pope Benedict XV, after a delay caused by the death of Pius X, name Anthony Joseph Schuler as the first bishop of El Paso. When Schuler arrived in El Paso later that year, he immediately decided to designate St. Patrick Church, still under construction, as the new cathedral.

The Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross in 1923 opened the St. Patrick School. The diocese in 1929 replaced the original glass windows in the cathedral with stained glass windows. In 1936, the cathedral received a large crucifix as a donation from a parishioner. The statue was successfully restored in 2021.

In September 2025, the diocese announced a $6 million renovation project to address structural problems at St. Patrick. They also planned to update the HVAC, lighting and sound systems and the electrical wiring in teh cathedral.

Cathedral interior

The interior of St. Patrick Cathedral has Roman columns and elaborate frescoes that depict biblical scenes. The Stations of the Cross are carved in bas-relief on the walls. The cathedral seats about 800 people for mass. A painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe and a life-size classical sculpture of St. Patrick are located in alcoves along the walls.