A solemn High Mass was celebrated at Westminster Cathedral on June 28 to mark the centenary of its consecration.
Archbishop Vincent Nichols was the principal celebrant and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor gave the homily. The Dean of Westminster Abbey, Dr John Hall, also attended.
The Catholic Cathedral Church of Westminster, which is dedicated to the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, was designed in the early Christian Byzantine style by the Victorian architect John Francis Bentley.
The centenary is also being marked by an exhibition, “Treasures of the Cathedral” which will be open to the public from Thursday 1 July 2010. It will display some of Westminster Cathedral’s most precious artefacts.
