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THE BISHOP'S HOUSE THE CHAPEL
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CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL
THE RECTORY
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CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL
NEW ORLEANS
WHERE THE OPENING AND CLOSING SERVICES
OF THE GENERAL CONVENTION WERE HELD.
Its history dates to 1804 when, immediately after
the Louisiana Purchase had been consummated, a
group of citizens met in the Cabildo on Jackson
Square, and voted that the new Church should be
an Episcopal Church, and a charter was granted to
Christ Church by the Legislature in 1805. I his con-
gregation was the first Church of any Communion,
other than the Roman Catholic, in the whole of the
Louisiana Parchase-west of the Mississippi River
from Canada to the Gulf. The present building is
the fourth in these 120 years, and Bishop Sessums
was Rector of this parish when elected
to the Bishopric.
