The Cathedral of Saints Jacob and Christopher is a Roman Catholic cathedral and the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Corfu, Zakynthos, and Cephalonia, located in the historic center of Corfu Town. The cathedral is also known by the Latin names San Giacomo (James) and Cristoforo (Christopher).
The cathedral dates back to the 15th century and was built on the ruins of an earlier orthodox church dedicated to the apostles Peter and Paul. During the Ottoman siege of 1571, the church suffered severe damage. After reconstruction, the church was officially declared the Catholic cathedral of the diocese in 1632. The church sustained more damage on several other occasions, including an explosion of gunpowder that caused a fire in 1718 and during a German bombing on 13 September 1943. Many reconstructions, renovations, and extensions of the building over the centuries have resulted in the current appearance of the cathedral.
Nowadays the Cathedral of Saints Jacob and Christopher has the shape of a single-aisled wooden roofed basilica with three side chapels on each side. The total area of the cathedral is about 600 square meters and the roof of the main temple has a height of 9.2 meters from the floor. The style of the cathedral can be mostly compared to the Late Baroque churches of Venice.
