Our story as a parish began when various pastors and parish members of St. Elizabeth Church, adjacent to Texas Tech University, started to plan for the future of the Church in Lubbock.  At about the same time, the Diocese of Amarillo started a campaign to raise money to purchase real estate in Amarillo, Lubbock and other communities with a view to the future of the Church.  A site at 54th and Orlando was chosen.  Dirt roads and fields of cotton surrounded the thirty-acre site on all four sides.

Christ the King became a parish entity on January 1, 1961.  The first structure, finished in 1958, was a grade school, consisting of a gymnasium, locker rooms and cafeteria.  Sunday Masses and other liturgies were celebrated in the gym.  A high school wing was added in 1963 and closed in 1981.  Plans are now to add a tenth grade.

The church building was dedicated in 1968; Lubbock became a Diocese in June 1983, Christ the King Church was designated as the Cathedral Church of the new Diocese.  In 1990, the parish leadership began to explore the possibility of a remodeling effort to enlarge the worship space and bring the building into conformity with directives that had been issued concerning Cathedral buildings following Vatican Council II.  In 1993, the parish began a campaign to raise funds for a building.  We moved from our former building in January 1997.  The school gymnasium became our worship space for the next fifteen months.  We returned to our revised/remodeled worship space on April 4, 1998.  The current remodel/revision was completed in December 1999.  The architects of the project were B.G.R. & Associates of Lubbock and the contractor was Hunter Construction Company of Lubbock.