With the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, the Basilica serves as co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, which was created in 1789 and is the Premier See of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. This distinction does not denote any status of primacy, but is a recognition of the socio-historical importance of the Archdiocese to Church development in the country. The Archdiocese is one of five American Dioceses that have two churches serving as cathedrals in the same city, the others being the Dioceses of Honolulu, Burlington, and Brooklyn, as well as the Archdiocese of Anchorage.