what is the difference between a church and a cathedral?

The word 'Cathederal' is a shortening of 'cathederal church', which was originally the church housing the bishop's throne. Cathederal comes from the Greek 'kathedra' (source also of English 'chair'), a compound noun meaning 'seat' formed from kata- 'down' and *hed- 'sit'.

The adjectival form was created in late Latin as 'cathederalis', and reached English via old French.

The notion of the bishop's authority residing in his throne recurs in 'see', which comes from the Latin sedem 'seat', a relative of the English 'sit'.

So, the difference is that a cathederal is a church housing the bishop's throne.

Difference Between Cathedral And Church

A church is the catholic symbol where people from the town can go to celebrate the prayers and a cathedral is literally the seat of a bishop,

A Cathedral is the Bishops Church :)

In the Catholic Church, there's no difference in terms of the fact that the Masses celebrated at them are the same, and all of them house the Body and Blood of Christ in their tabernacles.

The biggest difference is that the pastor of a church is typically a priest, whereas the pastor of a cathedral is typically the bishop of the diocese.

Most dioceses only have one cathedral, and the diocese's bishop serves as its pastor.

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Jan above is right. A cathedral is the church siege of a bishop. The word comes from ancient Greek Cathedra and means "chair".

a church is a body of believers a cathedral is a man made building

The cathedral was a chuch for a bishop (évêque in French).

But now it is used for a very beautiful church

A cathedral qualifies a settlement the status of City regardless of size.

Cathedral - large building.

Church - assembly.