Record attendance, furniture, stained glass windows… how the Archbishop of Paris is preparing the reopening of Notre-Dame

2024-02-18T05:21:05.200Z

Highlights: Record attendance, furniture, stained glass windows… how the Archbishop of Paris is preparing the reopening of Notre-Dame. Laurent Ulrich was “seized with fear and sadness” on April 15, 2019, when he discovered the building in flames on television. He was then archbishop of Lille (North), before being appointed head of the archdiocese of Paris less than three years later. Since then, he has overseen the reconstruction of the interior of the cathedral.

If the State is responsible for the structural work in the reconstruction of the cathedral since the fire of 2019, it is the diocese of Paris which is piloting the