Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Alaska)
church in Alaska , United States
Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe of the Catholic Church is located in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. It is the cathedral and a parish church of the Archdiocese of Anchorage–Juneau. Our Lady of Guadalupe is the seat of the archbishop along with the Co-Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Juneau. From 2014 to 2020 Our Lady of Guadalupe was the co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Anchorage.
History
Our Lady of Guadalupe parish was established in the 1970s. The congregation originally met in a Methodist church until they could afford to build a multi-purpose building that included worship space. The present church was designed by Architects Alaska in the Spanish Mission Revival style and completed in 2005.
Because of growth in the archdiocese and the limitations of its downtown location, it was decided that Holy Family Cathedral was no longer a practical location for many liturgical functions of the archdiocese. Archbishop Roger Schwietz, OMI petitioned the Holy See in 2013 to have Our Lady of Guadalupe Church named a co-cathedral and Holy Family maintained as the historic cathedral. In October 2014 the petition was approved.
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