Christ Church Cathedral

Original Price: $15.95
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Stock #: 419656
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: New Orleans
State: Louisiana (LA)
County: Orleans
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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The Bishop's House The Chapel The Rectory Where the Opening and Closing Services of the General Convention Were Held. Its history dates to 1804 when, immediately after the Louisiana Purchase had been consummated, a group of citizens met in the Cabildo on Jackson Square, and voted that the new Church should be an Episcopal Church, and a charter was granted to Christ Church by the Legislature in 1805. This congregation was the first Church of any COmmunion, other than the Roman Catholic, in the whole of the Louisiana Purchase - west of the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf. The present building is the fourth of these 120 years, and Bishop Sessums was Rector of this parish when elected to the Bishopric

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