History & Significance
Cathedral · Est. Parish founded 1936; cathedral dedicated January 18, 1939
The Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta's Buckhead district was founded as a parish in 1936 by Bishop Gerald O'Hara of the Diocese of Savannah, who purchased land along Peachtree Road that had previously belonged to the local Ku Klux Klan. The church was dedicated on January 18, 1939, in a ceremony overseen by Bishop O'Hara and Cardinal Dennis Dougherty of Philadelphia. It became the sole cathedral when the Diocese of Atlanta was created in 1956 and the seat of the archbishop when Atlanta was elevated to an archdiocese in 1962. It serves today as the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta.
French Gothic style, designed by architect Henry D. Dagit Jr. (without flying buttresses)
- •Seat and mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta
- •Parish established in 1936 by Bishop Gerald O'Hara of the Diocese of Savannah
- •Dedicated January 18, 1939; built on former Ku Klux Klan headquarters land on Peachtree Road in Buckhead
- •Became sole cathedral of the Diocese of Atlanta (1956) and seat of the archbishop after elevation to archdiocese (1962)
- •Contains 65 stained-glass windows by Willet Studios of Philadelphia
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