The Cathedral of Saint Andrew in Patras was supervised by Anastasios Metaxas and then Georgios Nomikos. The article names no client. The infobox and text agree that work began in 1908 and the church was inaugurated in 1974. The article names the style Byzantine, or Neo-Byzantine, and no building materials.
The church is about 196 feet (59.8 m) long and 170 feet (51.8 m) wide. The ground floor covers about 1,900 square meters, with roughly 700 more on a first-level gallery. Capacity is cited as 7,000 people.
A gold-plated cross 16 feet (5 m) tall sits over the central dome, with 12 smaller crosses on the other domes. The apostle's skull arrived from Rome in September 1964. The article describes it as the largest Orthodox church in Greece, though it names another church as the largest in some sources. It gives no hours.
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