title: Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral (Green Bay, Wisconsin)
text: # Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral (Green Bay, Wisconsin)
  
  St. Francis Xavier Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. The cathedral was named in honor of St. Francis Xavier.
  
  The cathedral was planned and erected between 1876 and 1881 under the episcopate of Francis Xavier Krautbauer. It was designed on the pattern of Ludwigskirche, a landmark church in the center of Munich, Germany. Krautbauer ordered a monumental crucifixion painted by Johann Schmitt, a local German-descent painter of the Nazarene movement. Krautbauer was buried under the cathedral's floor.
  
  The cathedral began receiving a series of 18 restorations starting in 2014. It closed in September 2017 and was reopened at a 9:00 mass on Sunday December 3, 2017. 2017 Repairs include the floors, pews, paintings, and pipe organ.
  
  ## Images
  
  * Crucifixion painted by Johann Schmitt
  * Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral Interior before restorations
  * Street View across S. Monroe & Doty
  