Trinity Cathedral, Paris, is dedicated in 1923. Photo/courtesy of Trinity Cathedral in Paris” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Trinity-Paris-cathedral-dedication-1923.jpg?fit=300%2C220&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Trinity-Paris-cathedral-dedication-1923.jpg?fit=750%2C551&ssl=1″ decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high” src=”../episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Trinity-Paris-cathedral-dedication-1923_resize-375-276-ssl-1.jpg” alt=”” class=”wp-image-86062″ width=”375″ height=”276″ srcset=”../episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Trinity-Paris-cathedral-dedication-1923_w-750-ssl-1.jpg 750w, ../episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Trinity-Paris-cathedral-dedication-1923_resize-300-220-ssl-1.jpg 300w” sizes=”(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px” data-recalc-dims=”1″/>Trinity Cathedral, Paris, is dedicated in 1923. Photo/courtesy of Trinity Cathedral in Paris
On March 18, 1923, the fifth Sunday in Lent, the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, popularly known as the American Cathedral in Paris, was consecrated and became the seat of the bishop-in-charge of the Episcopal Churches in Europe.
The consecration came more than three-quarters of a century after the then-Holy Trinity Church formed as the first Episcopal Church outside the United States, writes Lynette Wilson for Episcopal News Service.
One hundred years later, on the fifth Sunday in Lent, March 26, 2023, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry stepped up into the pulpit and preached about the binding power of love to a full house during a Eucharist celebrating the cathedral’s 100th anniversary.
From the moment construction was completed in 1886 of the soaring Neo-Gothic Holy Trinity church, there was a vision of it as a cathedral, according to the cathedral’s historical timeline. By the end of World War I in 1918, there were seven Episcopal churches in Europe. Holy Trinity’s then-bishop, G. Mott Williams, approved cathedral status for the church in early 1923 and the consecration took place shortly thereafter.
Trinite magazine covers the cathedral’s centennial. Photo/Trinity Cathedral in Paris
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This year, throughout the March 24-26 weekend, which included a celebration with a champagne toast, a singing of “Happy Birthday,” live music, and later a DJ and dancing in the nave on Friday night, a revival on Saturday and the Sunday Eucharist, the cathedral’s history, which includes standing through World War I, World War II and a Nazi occupation, and the Cold War, is an ever-changing story of witness, ministry and renewal into the present day, reported ENS.
