St. Andrew's Church, or St. Andreas, is a Roman Catholic church in the old town of Cologne. It is one of twelve churches built in Cologne in the tenth century. Archbishop Gero consecrated it in 974 and dedicated it to St. Andrew. An earlier church on the site had been dedicated to St. Matthew.
In the twelfth century the church was rebuilt in the Romanesque style, and it was probably completed after the great fire of Cologne in 1220.
The crypt holds a third-century Roman sarcophagus, which contains the remains of St. Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth-century theologian and natural philosopher. The Dominican Order has ministered to the church since 1947.
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