Grace Church Cathedral, located in

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, is the diocesan cathedral of the

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. It is also a

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in the

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. The parish was founded as the city's fifth Episcopal Church congregation in 1846. The

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church was designed by

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and completed in 1848. The church remained open during the

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until it was hit by a shell in January 1864. It reopened the following year. The church was also severely damaged in an earthquake in August 1886, in a

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in 1911, and in

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in 1989. It was selected to be the cathedral at the annual diocesan convention in November 2015; the previous diocesan cathedral, the

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, became affiliated with the

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in 2012. Robert Willis,

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, presented the newly designated cathedral with a Canterbury Cross at a special service in April 2016. Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry was also present.

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