Sacred Heart Cathedral (Raleigh, North Carolina)

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Sacred Heart Cathedral
Sacred Heart Cathedral (Raleigh, North Carolina) is located in North Carolina
Sacred Heart Cathedral (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Location in North Carolina
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Location 200 Hillsborough Street
Raleigh, North Carolina
Country United States
Denomination Roman Catholic Church
Website www.sacredheartcathedral.org
History
Founded 1879
Dedicated October 1924
Architecture
Style Neo-Gothic
Groundbreaking 1922
Completed 1924
Specifications
Materials Stone
Administration
Diocese Diocese of Raleigh
Clergy
Bishop(s) Most Rev. Michael F. Burbidge
Rector Rev. Justin Kerber, C.P.

Sacred Heart Cathedral, sometimes referred to as Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh.[1] As of 2015 the bishop seated at the cathedral was Michael Francis Burbidge.[2] When the current building was completed in 1924 as a parish church, North Carolina was the only state in the United States of America without its own Catholic diocese. Sacred Heart Cathedral is the smallest Roman Catholic cathedral in the continental United States. The cathedral is located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina on Hillsborough Street.[3][4] The Cathedral also hosts the Cathedral School, formally called the Sacred Heart Cathedral School, a Catholic elementary and middle school.

Cathedral

Sacred Heart Cathedral serves as the Mother Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh and the throne of the current bishop of Raleigh. The cathedral is named after the Sacred Heart of Jesus and has a statue of Jesus Christ above its entrance.

Eleven masses are necessary per weekend to serve everyone.[2]

Papal honors

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge presided at Solemn Vespers held on Sunday, January 11, 2009, to celebrate the bestowal of Papal Honors by Pope Benedict XVI on Sacred Heart Cathedral's the Reverend Monsignor David D. Brockman and Kathleen Walsh. The appointments were announced in November, with Monsignor Brockman being elevated to the title of Prelate of Honor and Miss Walsh, director of Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Raleigh, receiving the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.

Golden Jubilee

Monsignor Thomas P. Hadden celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of priesthood with a Jubilee Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral on Saturday, December 20, 2008. Monsignor Hadden was ordained in Rome in 1958 as a priest of the Diocese of Raleigh upon his graduation from the North American College in Rome. Thirty priests concelebrated the liturgy in the presence of Michael F. Burbidge. Monsignor Gerald L. Lewis was the homilist.[3]

New cathedral

Burbidge announced the building of a new Cathedral for the Diocese of Raleigh to replace the existing Sacred Heart Cathedral which is too small. Fund-raising began in September 2011. The new facility, located on 39 acres where the diocese offices and Cardinal Gibbons High School were located, will be named Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral. Groundbreaking took place January 3, 2015 on a $41 million building which will hold 2,000 people and will be finished in two years. At that time, $34.7 million of the cost had been raised.[5][6][2]

School

Statue of Our Lady of North Carolina at the front of the school.

Cathedral School, formally Sacred Heart Cathedral School, a Roman Catholic Pre-K through eighth grade cathedral school, is hosted at Sacred Heart Cathedral. The school was established in 1909 and educates young Catholics and prepares them for High School. Cathedral School feeds into Cardinal Gibbons High School. Cardinal Gibbons High School had originally been at Sacred Heart Cathedral and was called Sacred Heart High School and then Cathedral Latin High School.[7] In 2007, Cathedral School received a National Blue Ribbon of Excellence Award.[8] In the future, Cathedral School is to move to the Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral site.[2]

See also

References

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External links

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