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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.
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