History

Around 280 AD

St. Clement becomes the first Bishop of Metz.

5th century

The creation of an oratory dedicated to Saint Stephen.

742 AD

Saint Chrodegang becomes Bishop of Metz. He reformed the life of the chapter and the clerics, facilitated the introduction of the Metz Gregorian chant and enlarged the ‘‘cathedral group’’.

869

Charles the Bald is crowned in the Cathedral.

968

Bishop Thierry I encourages the construction of a Romanesque Cathedral.

1040

The Romanesque Cathedral is consecrated.

1220

Bishop Conrad of Scharfenberg orders the construction of the Gothic Cathedral, a construction that will be finished in 1552.

1381

Hermann of Munster begins the rose window and the large glass roof of the western facade.

1468

A fire ignites on both the roof and the wooden tower which served as a belfry.

1521

Valentin Bousch completes the large glass roof of the south transept.

1754

The demolition of the cloister -dating from the eleventh century- and of the surrounding chapels, in order to realize the current Place d’Armes.

1764

The construction of a classical portal into the western facade by the architect Jacques-François Blondel, commemorating the unexpected recovery of Louis XV, in Metz in 1744.

1877

A fire ignites on the roof due to fireworks fired in honor of the emperor William I.

1880

The reconstruction of the portal of the Virgin in neo-Gothic style under the direction of the architect Paul Tornow and of the sculptor Louis-Auguste Dujardin.