Cathedral of the Holy Family in Anchorage

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The seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Anchorage is the Cathedral of the Holy Family.

Cathedral of the Holy Family in Anchorage is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. It is the motherchurch of the Archdiocese of Anchorage and is the seat of the prelate archbishop. It is located in the City of Anchorage in the state of Alaska.

[edit] History

On Good Friday of 1964, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2 devastated much of southcentral Alaska. The Pope's apostolic delegate came to view the damage, and upon doing so they saw that Anchorage would be the focal point of both state and spiritual growth. In 1966, the Holy See created the Archdiocese of Anchorage, and made Alaska a separate province. Today, most of Alaska's archdiocese's Catholics worship in one of Anchorage's parishes.

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• Diocese History

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