Are there any basilicas in the USA?

A variety of basilicas throughout the country double as national shrines. Perhaps most notable on such a list is the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., or the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption in Baltimore, Maryland — also America's first cathedral church.



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basilica, in the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches, a canonical title of honour given to church buildings that are distinguished either by their antiquity or by their role as international centres of worship because of their association with a major saint, an important historical event, or, in the Orthodox ...

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Catholic National Shrine & Basilica of Our Lady, Walsingham.

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The title gives the church certain privileges, principally the right to reserve its high altar for the pope, a cardinal, or a patriarch, and special penitential privileges that remove the basilica from local geographical jurisdiction and give it international status.

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