Győr Cathedral, the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Győr in Hungary. The first church on the site was an early eleventh-century Romanesque building, which the Mongols destroyed. It was rebuilt between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Italian master Giovanni Battista Rava redesigned the interior from 1635 to 1650 in an early Baroque style. The tower was finished in 1680, and construction lasted until the 1770s.
The pulpit dates from the 1770s, under Bishop Count Ferenc Zichy. It is made of red marble and gilt wood carvings, and shows Neoclassical influence. It is attributed to Melchior Hefele. A wrought-iron railing was made in 1783.
The cathedral holds the skull of Saint Ladislaus in a herm. It was last restored from 1968 to 1972, and Pope John Paul II named it a minor basilica in 1997.
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