Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Asmara
The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Asmara () is a Roman Catholic church built in the early 1920s in Asmara, when the city was the capital of Italian Eritrea. Often called "the cathedral", it is a large Lombard Romanesque style church in the centre of the city, built in 1923 to serve as the principal church of the Apostolic Vicariate of Eritrea.

The church was never the seat of a diocesan bishop and thus was not a cathedral in the strict sense. It was the principal church of an apostolic vicariate, an ecclesiastical jurisdiction headed by a titular bishop. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a time of great immigration of Italians into the then colony of Eritrea, this apostolic vicariate, which since 1930 was exclusively of the Latin Church, happened to have more faithful than the Ordinariate for the Ethiopic Rite Catholics in the country; but after the Second World War the number of Italians in Eritrea went into steep decline. When the fourth titular bishop who acted as Apostolic Vicar at Asmara resigned in 1971, no successor was appointed and the vicariate was administered by a priest instead of a bishop, until it was finally suppressed in 1995. 

The church is now a parish church belonging to the Eritrean Catholic Archeparchy of Asmara, whose cathedral is the Kidane Mehret Church, Asmara. Nevertheless, in Asmara the church is still commonly called the cathedral.
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Roman Catholic
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Asmara
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Italian Eritrea
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Lombard Romanesque
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Apostolic Vicariate of Eritrea
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diocesan bishop
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cathedral
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apostolic vicariate
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titular bishop
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Latin Church
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Ordinariate
Concept
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Ethiopic Rite
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Second World War
EVE
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Eritrean Catholic Archeparchy of Asmara
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Q28800021
Kidane Mehret Church, Asmara
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Q2061047
Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Asmara
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1920
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1923
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1930-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1930
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1940-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1940
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1930
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1971-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1971
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1995-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1995
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