The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist

St. John became a cathedral in 1918, when the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana was founded with this church as its see. It was listed on the National Register on July 27, 1979, and the listing grew by a boundary increase approved on January 25, 2024. Wikipedia places several notable graves in the cathedral's cemetery, St. John's: Alexandre Mouton, governor from 1843 to 1846; his son General Alfred Mouton, reburied there in 1874 after his death at Mansfield; and the congressman James Domengeaux.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 1.7 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 7.5 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 14 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• St. John Cathedral Oak — steps away
• General Alfred Mouton — steps away
• Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette — 0.2 mi
• Lafayette Museum / Le Musée de Lafayette — 0.2 mi