St. Aubin's Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Namur in Belgium. It was founded in 1047 as a collegiate church by Albert II of Namur, and a papal bull made it a cathedral on 12 May 1559. It is classified as part of Wallonia's Major Heritage.
The church was almost entirely rebuilt between 1751 and 1767 to Italianate designs by Gaetano Matteo Pisoni, an architect from Ticino. It is Belgium's only cathedral in the academic Late Baroque style. A frieze of Corinthian capitals with fruit and flower swags runs around the church, and the interior avoids color. The thirteenth-century tower at the west end is the main surviving part of the earlier church.
The cathedral holds paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens. A marble plaque near the high altar covers a casket with the heart of Don Juan of Austria.
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