The cathedral was planned and erected between 1876 and 1881 under the episcopate of Francis Xavier Krautbauer.

It was designed on the pattern of Ludwigskirche, a landmark church in the center of Munich, Germany.

Krautbauer ordered a monumental crucifixion painted by Johann Schmitt, a local German-descent painter of the Nazarene movement.

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