Major Churches
The cathedral of the diocese is the Aachen Cathedral, which was built in 800 by Charlemagne. It also was the first German world heritage site, inscribed in 1980.
Two churches within the diocese have received the basilica minor title by the pope.
- Basilica SS. Potentinus, Felicius und Simplicius, Kall-Steinfeld, October 7, 1960
- Münster-Basilica St. Vitus, Mönchengladbach, April 25, 1973
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