Irapuato Cathedral, Cathedral in Plaza Monumental Miguel Hidalgo, Irapuato, Mexico.

Irapuato Cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, stands in front of the Plaza Monumental Miguel Hidalgo. Its Latin-cross plan has a barrel vault of polygonal cross-section and polygonal formeros and toral arches. The west portal bears the Christogram JHS, the east portal the monogram Joseph, and the main portal shows the Virgin under her devotion.

A parish existed here by 1631, when a census by the Bishop of Michoacán recorded it; the exact construction date is unknown. Pope John Paul II granted it cathedral rank in 2004, making it the seat of the Diocese of Irapuato. The state government's Plan Guanajuato works of 1964 destroyed its large atrium.

The cathedral is dedicated to Nuestra Señora de la Limpia Concepción, though the image of the Virgen de la Soledad, kept here since the 17th century, is the focus of local devotion. After a cannonball pierced the vault during the 1811 attack by Albino "El Manco" García and killed no one, Bishop Manuel Abad y Queipo set her feast on 30 April from 1813; she was crowned in 1922.

The cathedral faces the Plaza Monumental Miguel Hidalgo in the city center, so it is reached on foot from the surrounding streets rather than from a main avenue. Dress for a working church: shoulders and knees covered. The 1964 Plan Guanajuato works removed the original atrium, so there is no walled forecourt to enter through.

The east portal faces the old Templo de San José and carries the Latin monogram "Joseph"; the west portal bears the Christological monogram "JHS". The three façades thus present the Holy Family, with the main front dedicated to Mary under the Immaculate Conception.