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The Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a Catholic cathedral in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. ==History== Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish was established in 1919 when Bishop Theophile Meerschaert, the first Bishop of Oklahoma City, assigned Monsignor Monnot its first pastor on January 19. Mass for the parish was initially celebrated in an automobile showroom on Classen Boulevard. The first church building was a wood structure built in May 1919 on NW 31st Street between Western and Lake. The following month a ground breaking was held for a combination church and school building. Construction of the present church building was begun on July 3, 1923 and it was completed in February 1924. A frame rectory was completed in July of the same year. Pope Pius XI elevated Our Lady of Perpetual Help to a cathedral in 1931.〔 It replaced St. Joseph Cathedral downtown. Thirty Vietnamese families, refugees from the Vietnam War, joined the parish in 1975. Their numbers have continued to grow in the succeeding years. In 1993 a renovation project was begun. It included a new pipe organ by W. Zimmer and Sons of Charlotte, North Carolina, a new baptistery, electrical work and other additions to the parish plant. Along with the rector, Rev. John Metzinger, and associate pastor, Rev. Thanh Nguyen, from July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2015, Rev. Brian Buettner served his first priestly assignment as an associate pastor of Our Lady's Cathedral before returning to Rome, Italy for advanced studies in Sacred Theology in July 2015. 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 Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Oklahoma City)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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