What is the difference between a chapel, a church, a cathedral, and a basilica according to the Roman Catholic Church?

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A cathedral is the chief church of a diocese in which the bishop has his throne. Basilica has both an architectural sense and a canonical sense. In the canonical sense, the term usually refers to major buildings. Major basilicas include St. Peter's, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, and St. Paul-without-the-Walls... one of the features of major basilicas is that they have a "holy door". The pope can declare a particular church as a basilica. "Chapel" is a very broad term, and can apply to anything from a section of a much larger church or cathedral, to small buildings. The word itself is associated with the idea of relics, since it is drawn from the idea that St. Martin divided his cape (chapelle) in half and left half with a beggar. "Church" is a word that covers pretty much everything given above... generally any building set aside "in perpetuity for the public exercise of Divine worship." I got all this information from a Catholic encyclopaedia online. http://www.newadvent.org Aug 09 05, 10:05 PM

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