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Founded around 1030 by the Hiberno-Norse king Sitric Silkenbeard and the first bishop of Dublin, Dunan, Christ Church Cathedral is the older of the city's two medieval cathedrals and among its oldest buildings. The original church, built on high ground overlooking the Viking settlement at Wood Quay, was a wooden structure that served as one of just two churches for the whole early city. In the 1170s, following the Anglo-Norman invasion, the cathedral was rebuilt in stone under the impetus of Ri...