From Crystal Cathedral to Christ Cathedral

カリフォルニア州オレンジ教区は、かつてプロテスタントの巨大教会だったクライスト大聖堂の改修工事を正式に終了した。10年以上の工事を経て、同教区が「カトリックの礼拝の主要な中心地」と呼ぶ建物が完成した。

クリスタル大聖堂からクライスト大聖堂へ: 12年ぶりに大規模な改修工事が完了

CNA Staff, Oct 16, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).

The Diocese of Orange in California has officially finished its renovation of Christ Cathedral, a onetime-Protestant megachurch, after more than a decade of work that brings to completion what the diocese calls a “major center of Catholic worship.”

The cathedral has been fully operational for five years and currently hosts nearly a dozen Masses in multiple languages every weekend, serving upward of 12,000 Catholics.

The diocese in 2011 purchased the massive glass-faced building, previously the center of the Presbyterian Shepherd’s Grove congregation, for $57.5 million. The diocese had long been planning to build a new cathedral in nearby Santa Ana before the building, then known as the Crystal Cathedral, went up for auction.