Cathedral (Age of Empires III)

This article is about the building in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition. For the building in Age of Empires II, see Cathedral (Age of Empires II).

Cathedral
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Type	Building Economic
Civilization	Mexicans Peru
Age	Commerce Age
Use	Retrains the Padre Train Spies Research town and unique technologies Generates 1 XP/second Repairs nearby buildings (0.25% of maximum hit points per second, 40 Area of Effect)
Construction
Wood	200
Coin	200
Max. builders	8
Build time	30 seconds
Build limit	1
Statistics
Hit points	5,000
Line of Sight	34
XP build bounty	80
XP bounty	160

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Mexican Church building that can revive a fallen Padre, protects nearby buildings, and has powerful unique upgrades.

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The Cathedral is an economic building in Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition that is unique to the Mexicans and is available once the Commerce Age is reached. It functions identically to European Churches, but instead of training Priests, retrains the Padre, as well as having more hit points and are capable of slowly repairing nearby buildings (but not the Cathedral itself).

Units

Age	Unit	Cost	Pop.	Limit
	Padre	175 coin	–	1
	Spy	110 coin	1	∞
	Missionary	50 wood 50 coin	–	10
	Priest	100 coin	1	30
	Surgeon	225 coin

• The Missionary can be trained at the Cathedral upon revolting to Peru.
• The Priest can be trained at the Cathedral for Peru if revolting from the Portuguese.
• The Surgeon requires the "Master Surgeon" Home City Card to be trained at the Cathedral.

Technologies

Age	Technology	Cost	Effect
	Gas Lighting	100 food	All buildings get +4 Line of Sight
	Town Watch	200 food	All units get +3 Line of Sight
	Holy Mass	750 coin	Ships 500 XP for each 10 minutes of game passed, up to 30 minutes
	Liturgy	100 food 100 wood 100 coin	The Padre may now area-heal multiple damaged units at the same time
	Guadalupanos	200 food 200 wood 200 coin	The Padre's "Pacify" ability can now be used against military units
	Cry of Dolores	400 food 400 wood 400 coin	The Padre gets the "Cry of Dolores" ability, which quickly heals all units nearvy him
	State Religion	500 coin	Next Federal State Age Up research or researching time -50 seconds and ships twice as many XP crates
	First Guarantee	Free	The Padre now automatically respawns at the Home City shipment point when he fell; requires the "Plan of Iguala" Home City Card
	Visit of the Seven Houses		Ships 1 Insurgente for every House built
	Día de Muertos		Grants +5 XP for every unit lost (but not deleted) before this technology is researched
	Redoubts	600 wood 600 coin	Walls get +400% hit points, -20% cost, and +40% build time
	Second Guarantee	Free	Musket infantry get +15% hit points and attack, and +30% train time; requires the "Plan of Iguala" Home City Card
	Standing Army	350 coin	Infantry train time -25%
	Mass Cavalry	750 coin	Cavalry train time -35%
	Third Guarantee	Free	Haciendas can be sold to return their resource cost but get -35% hit points, +200% build time, and do not give experience when built; requires the "Plan of Iguala" Home City Card
	Bastion	600 wood 600 coin	Upgrades Walls to Bastions with +600% hit points and +50% build time
	Mission Fervor	125 food 125 wood	Healing units get +50% hit points, -50% train time, and +50% healing rate
	Diablada	Free	Grants +5 XP for every unit lost (but not deleted) before this technology is researched

Further statistics

Building strengths and weaknesses
Strong vs.	Nothing
Weak vs.	Everything
technologies
Hit points	Flying Buttress (+20%) Byzantine Legacy (+15%)
Line of Sight	Gas Lighting (+4)
Build time	Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-25%)
Cost	Tupi Forest Burning (-20% wood) Cree Textile Craftsmanship (-10%)

Home City Cards

Click for a list of Home City Cards related to the Cathedral

Some cards are highlighted with:
Green	TEAM Shipment that is sent to each player in a team

All

Card	Description	Age
Improved Buildings	Buildings get +40% hit points
TEAM Improved Buildings	Buildings get +25% hit points

• "TEAM Improved Buildings" is available to the Inca, Indians, and Maltese.

Europeans

Card	Description	Age
Monumental Architecture	Buildings get +30% hit points; Town Centers get +35% attack
Lima	Ships 1 Cathedral Wagon; Cathedral build limit +1; Cathedral generates +100% XP, can train Missionaries, and research Holy Mass, Visit of the Seven Houses, and Diablada

• "Monumental Architecture" and "Lima" are available to the Portuguese and Spanish upon revolting to Peru.

French

Card	Description	Age
TEAM Louvre	Gives a trickle of 0.1 XP/sec.; Town Watch, Gas Lighting, Standing Army, Mass Cavalry, Medical Science, and Mission Fervor cost -50%; Kebra Nagast, Book of Axum, and Solomonic Dynasty cost -10%

Mexicans

Card	Description	Age
Cathedral Construction	Ships 1 Cathedral Wagon; Cathedral work rate +200% and available from the Exploration Age
Plan of Iguala	First Guarantee, Second Guarantee, and Third Guarantee available at the Cathedral
Seven Laws	All Mexican unique units and buildings' train/build bounty +50% as long as at least one of each had been trained at any point in the game
Colegio de San Nicolás	Ships 500 XP; units get +4 and buildings (except Walls) get +8 Line of Sight; sees what enemies can see for 20 seconds
Our Lady of the Light	Ships 1 Cathedral Wagon; The Cathedral generates +100% XP
Talavera Architecture	Buildings get +30% hit points and -30% build time, and give coin instead of experience when built
Our Lady of the Assumption	Ships 1 Cathedral Wagon; Cathedral experience generation rate +100% and build limit +1
Maya Architecture	All buildings except Forts get +30% hit points; buildings now give food as well as experience when built; grants Redoubts

• "Colegio de San Nicolás" is available upon selecting the Michoacán Federal State.
• "Our Lady of the Light" is available upon selecting the Guanajuato Federal State.
• "Talavera Architecture" is available upon selecting the Puebla Federal State.
• "Our Lady of the Assumption" is available upon revolting to Central America.
• "Maya Architecture" is available upon revolting to the Maya.

History

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In Christian states, the Cathedral was the ultimate monument to the glory of God. A large building of worship that was usually the seat of a bishop, one could only be painstakingly erected through extensive financial support and labor. Centers of religious influence both in the past and present, these structures stand to posterity as imposing and impressive reminders of the architectural prowess of past societies.

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Gallery

Cathedral image from the Compendium section

An in-game Cathedral in the Commerce/Fortress Age

An in-game Cathedral in the Industrial/Imperial Age

A Cathedral in-game

See also

• Church – European and Ethiopian equivalent
• Mosque – Ottoman and Hausa equivalent
• Meeting House – United States equivalent
• Basilica – Italian equivalent