Arch-Cathedral Basilica of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist (XIV century, rebuilt in the XVII, XIX, XX centuries) The oldest church in Warsaw. Its creation dates back to the turn of the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries. From the beginning of its existence, it was a parish church. Since 1406, it has been a collegiate church, elevated to the rank of a cathedral in 1797, an archcathedral in 1818, and a small basilica in 1960. In the past, important historical events took place there. Here, in 1339, before the Papal Tribunal, a successfully concluded trial with the Teutonic Order took place over the Holmnensk land and Pomerania, which they had captured.→
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