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The Cathedral of Christ the King is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in
Christ the King Parish was established in the
Official Cathedral SiteRoman Catholic Diocese of Lexington Official Site
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Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, Fayette County. By population, it is the List of cities in Kentucky, second-largest city in Kentucky and List of United States cities by popul ...
, United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of Lexington.
History
Christ the King Parish was established in the Diocese of Covington
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington ( la, Dioecesis Covingtonensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Northern Kentucky, covering 3,359 square miles (8,700 km2) that includes the city of Covington and the Kentucky counties of Boone, Kento ...
on July 22, 1945. Initially, Mass and other parish functions were held in the chapel at St. Catherine's Academy. The Rev. George J. O'Brien was named the parish's first pastor but had to resign soon after because of ill health, being replaced by the Rev. Richard O'Neill. The parish moved to its current site on May 12, 1946, with parish functions held in a pre-fabricated structure. Christ the King School was opened in 1951 and the Sisters of Divine Providence formed the initial faculty. The present church and rectory
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were built in the Modern and Art Deco architectural styles from 1965 to 1967 for $1.5 million. On January 14, 1988 Pope John Paul II established the Diocese of Lexington, and Christ the King became the cathedral for the new diocese. The Cathedral Center was added to the parish facilities in 1992.
Like many other Catholic parishes during the COVID-19 pandemic, the cathedral rector was forced to limit how and when the sacrament of confession was exercised.
Present Day
According to the cathedral's website, the cathedral parish "seeks transformation by the Holy Spirit to a parish focused on evangelizing, forming, equipping and sending forth missionary disciples of Jesus Christ into the world."Gallery
See also
* List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States * List of cathedrals in the United StatesReferences
External links
Official Cathedral Site
Churches in Lexington, Kentucky Modernist architecture in Kentucky Christian organizations established in 1945 Roman Catholic churches completed in 1967 Christ the King Lexington Roman Catholic churches in Kentucky Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States {{US-RC-cathedral-stub