Our Lady of Victories Basilica, Camberwell

Our Lady of Victories Basilica is a Roman Catholic church located in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell. Romanesque Revival in style, it was designed by architect Augustus Andrew Fritsch and was completed in 1918. It is one of five churches in Australia with minor basilica status. Our Lady of Victories occupies an imposing site in Burke Road and, in a city where most churches of the era are built in the Gothic Revival style, has a distinctive copper clad dome completed with a golden statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary titled as "Our Lady of Victories". Pope John Paul II raised the shrine to the status of Minor Basilica via his decree Præstans Templum Istud on 30 September 1996. The decree was signed and notarized by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano. The current parish priest is Reverend Brendan Reed.

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