History & Significance
Cathedral · Est. Dedicated September 25, 2008 (construction completed 2008)
The Cathedral of Christ the Light is the mother church and cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, located in downtown Oakland, California, near Lake Merritt. Designed by architect Craig W. Hartman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), it was dedicated on September 25, 2008, by Bishop Allen H. Vigneron. It replaced the former Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales, which was rendered structurally unusable by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The cathedral serves as the seat of the Bishop of Oakland and spiritual home for the Catholics of Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
Contemporary/modernist (vesica piscis form in glass, wood, and concrete)
- •Dedicated September 25, 2008, by Bishop Allen H. Vigneron
- •Cathedral and seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland
- •Designed by architect Craig W. Hartman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
- •Replaced the Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales, damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
- •Worship space built in a vesica piscis form with a perforated aluminum Omega Window depicting Christ, based on a Chartres Cathedral tympanum
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