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The Cathedral of Christ the Light, also called Oakland Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland in Oakland, California. It is the seat of the Bishop of Oakland. Christ the Light, the first cathedral built in the 21st century, replaces the Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales, irreparably damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989.〔("Cathedral In The News" )〕 Christ the Light, as a larger cathedral center, is composed of the cathedral church, chancery offices of the bishop's curia, diocesan conference center, rectory (priests' residence), health services center (which provides free diagnostic services to people without health insurance), and a mausoleum. The mausoleum features twelve crypts reserved for the bishops of Oakland and burial sites available to the members of the diocese for a comparable price to the other Catholic cemeteries in the diocese. The cathedral center also houses both a cafe and bookstore, as well as a public plaza and garden.〔(Cathedral of Christ the Light )〕 Christ the Light is designed by architect Craig W. Hartman, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.〔(Biography, Craig W. Hartman, FAIA )〕 The Catholic Cathedral Corporation of the East Bay, the incorporated owner of the cathedral,〔(Webcor Builders - Current and Recent Projects )〕 chose Webcor Builders as the general contractor of cathedral construction.〔 Originally planned in 2000 under the direction of Bishop John Stephen Cummins〔(The Cathedral of Christ the Light )〕 and broken ground on May 21, 2005,〔 Christ the Light was consecrated and dedicated by Bishop Allen Henry Vigneron on September 25, 2008.〔(''The Catholic Voice'', Oakland: "Cathedral dedicated as mother church of diocese" ) October 6, 2008.〕〔(Cathedral of Christ the Light )〕 On All Souls' Day November 2, the mausoleum was dedicated and the first Bishop of Oakland, Floyd Lawrence Begin, was reburied in one of its crypts. Located at 2121 Harrison Street in Oakland, the cathedral serves as the mother church of approximately 530,000 Catholics ==Design== The Catholic Cathedral Corporation of the East Bay instituted a design competition for Christ the Light. Various designs were judged and the corporation announced Santiago Calatrava, of Valencia, Spain as the winner. He designed the post–September 11 World Trade Center Port Authority Trans-Hudson station in New York City. Calatrava's design for Christ the Light was chosen before a site was appropriated for the project. By the time a site was chosen, a parking lot formerly dedicated to the construction of the tallest building in Oakland, Calatrava's design fell out of favor and was instead replaced by a design of competition runner-up Craig W. Hartman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill offices in San Francisco. Hartman, designer of the international terminal at San Francisco International Airport, created a 20th-century abstract building from the family of styles developed by architects like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, famous for creating steel shapes filled with glass. Hartman's vision for Christ the Light was likened to the image of a bishop's mitre,〔(Oakland Cathedral design project - Domiane Forte )〕 shaped by steel and filled with glass frit.〔(The Cathedral of Christ the Light )〕 The worship space in Christ the Light is a vesica piscis shape (translated into English means fish bladder), the shape formed by the intersection of two circles. The walls are composed of overlapping panels of wood and glass rising skyward to form the vault, much like the scales of a fish. The design is inspired by the miracle of the loaves and the fishes in Christian tradition, among other motifs.〔 ''The Oakland Tribune'' wrote of the Hartman's description of light, "The design allows light to filter in, reminiscent of how light filters through a canopy of tall redwood trees in a wooded glade, Hartman said".〔 Like the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels which serves the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Christ the Light is built with protective measures against earthquake damage. A small garden on Christ the Light's grounds is intended to serve as a place of healing for survivors of clergy sexual abuse.〔(Catholic Voice )〕 Designed by a survivors' group in collaboration with the Oakland Diocese, the garden features a basalt sculpture and a plaque inscribed "This healing garden, planned by survivors, is dedicated to those innocents sexually abused by members of the clergy. We remember, and we affirm: never again." Orgues Létourneau Limitée Organ Opus 118 was installed on both side of the Vesica. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cathedral of Christ the Light」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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