[5] A fire in 1817 made great losses to the church but it was restored by Samogitian Bishop Józef Arnulf Giedroyć.

However, after the January Uprising, the seat of Diocese was moved to Kaunas and Varniai cathedral became an ordinary church.

[7] Today the church belongs to Roman Catholic Diocese of Telšiai and is the center of Varniai parish.

The building is of mature Lithuanian baroque architecture: the three-nave basilica with a transept, two chapels, two in front protruding square plan towers with a belfry.

Varniai cathedrals interior is rich in artistic monuments: 12 altars, nineteenth century organ.