Hvar Cathedral, dedicated to St. Stephen, stands at the eastern end of the city square in Hvar, on the island of Hvar in Croatia. Two parts of the city meet there. The site previously held an early sixth-century Christian church and a later Benedictine convent of St. Mary.
The shrine preserves the remains of a fourteenth-century Gothic church. The pulpit and the stone polyptychs depicting St. Luke and the Flagellation of Christ survive from the fifteenth century, and a late Gothic crucifix is also kept there. The bell tower dates from the seventeenth century.
The article describes the present three-aisled church as a synthesis of Renaissance, Mannerist and early Baroque styles. It is a Roman Catholic cathedral.
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