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{{Infobox religious building
|name = Grace Cathedral 
|image = [[File:2009-0723-CA-005-GraceCathedral (pc).jpg|240px]]
|image_size = 
|caption = Cathedral and adjacent headquarters (right) of the Diocese of San Francisco 
|religious_affiliation = [[Church of New England]]
|district = {{W|Nob Hill}} 
|region = [[Kingdom of Sierra]]
|organisational_status = {{W|Cathedral}} 
|leadership = {{W|Dean}}: [[Malcolm J. Williams]]<br>[[Bishop of San Francisco]]: [[Michael Sturgeon]] 
|status = Active 
|location = 1100 {{W|California Street}}<br>[[San Francisco City]]
|province = [[San Francisco]] 
|country = [[Sierra|Federal Sierra]] 
|architect = {{W|Lewis P. Hobart}} 
|architecture_style = {{W|French Gothic}} 
|groundbreaking = 1927 
|completed = 1964 
|facade_direction = East
|length = 
|width = 329 feet (100 m) 
|capacity = 169 feet (49 m)
|height_max = 174 feet (53 m) 
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'''Grace Cathedral''' is a Sierran {{W|cathedral}} of the [[Church of New England]] in [[San Francisco City]]. Located on the top of {{W|Nob Hill}}, the Grace Cathedral is the main church and headquarters of the [[New Anglican Diocese of San Francisco]]. In terms of leadership, it has been lead by Dean [[Malcolm J. Williams]] since 2006 and [[Michael Sturgeon]] as [[Bishop of San Francisco]] since 2014.

The parish was founded in 1858, the previous church building was occupied by the [[Second California Republic]] during the [[Sierran Civil War]] and later destroyed during the {{W|1906 San Francisco earthquake}} where a temporary facility was created in 1907 while the modern building started construction, being completed in 1927, entered formal usage in 1934, and was officially completed in 1964. The cathedral is one of the most famous cathedrals of the New Anglican Church known for its murals designed by {{W|Polish}} architect {{W|Jan Henryk De Rosen}}, two {{W|labyrinths}}, its varied {{W|stained glass}} windows, a replica of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, David LaChapelle's ''Our Lady of the Flowers'', its medieval and contemporary furnishings, its forty-four {{W|carillon}}, three {{W|Organ (instrument)|organs}}, and {{W|Church choir|choir}}. The Grace Cathedral is also known for being the resting place of [[Catherine Perry]].

==History==
The cathedral's ancestral parish, Grace Church, was founded in 1849 during the {{W|California Gold Rush}} by settlers into the [[California Republic]], primarily by {{W|White American}} settlers who migrated to the region. Following the establishment of the [[Church of New England]] in 1858 around the same time of the proclamation of the [[Kingdom of Sierra]], Grace Church was incorporated by the New Anglican Church along with the parish, being renamed to the New Anglican Diocese of San Francisco. Starting in 1862, construction began on expanding the church into a cathedral with the intent on it serving as the diocese's headquarters and was concentrated on May 3, 1868. In 1872, the cathedral was used to be the resting place of [[Catherine Perry]], the wife of [[Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sierra|prime minister]] [[Ulysses Perry]], following her murder that year. A funeral was held in September and was done per the request of Perry as he desired to remain close to his wife's resting place while serving as prime minister due to San Francisco City being the capital at the time despite his wife having abandoned faith and became an {{W|Atheism|atheist}} a few years before her death.

During the [[Sierran Civil War]], the cathedral was occupied by the [[Military forces of the Second California Republic|military forces]] of the [[Second California Republic]] lead by [[Isaiah Landon]] following its successful capture of [[San Francisco]] during the [[Peninsula campaign (Sierran Civil War)|Peninsula campaign]] in 1872. During the war, several New Anglican churches were captured and desecrated due to the church's support for the [[Monarchy of the Kingdom of Sierra|Sierran monarchy]], however Grace Cathedral was exempted by orders of Landon due to it being the resting place of Catherine Perry and as such was treated with more respect and carefulness despite the republican forces' general mistreatment of the New Anglican Church and its adherents. During the war, the cathedral was used as both a makeshift military headquarters for republican [[Army of Santa Clara]] and as a church with religious services being held in the cathedral, albeit with its New Anglican symbols covered up and said services being {{W|Nondenominational Christianity|nondenominational}} due to Landon's mistrust of organized religion in general. In 1877, San Francisco was recaptured by the [[Sierran Royal Navy]] and [[Sierran Royal Marines|Marines]] and reinstated federal rule over the province towards the end of the war. After the war, the church was replied and its original iconography was reinstated, having suffered minimum damage during the republican occupation.

[[File:Grace_Cathedral,_1906.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Ruins of the original cathedral following the 1906 earthquake.]]
The original cathedral was destroyed during the {{W|1906 San Francisco earthquake}} by a fire starter by the disaster itself. Following the disaster, a temporary facility was built to hold church services while the cathedral went under reconstruction on Nob Hill after the land was donated to them by William Henry Crocker due to sympathy with the church and the loss of one of its major cathedrals. Dean J. William Gresham helped nurture the young cathedral as its construction progressed with the modern structuring's creation beginning in 1910. The cathedral was designed in an {{W|English Gothic}} style in {{W|London}} by English architect {{W|George Frederick Bodley}} and later continued by Sierran {{W|Lewis P. Hobart}} after the former's death in 1907 where he finished the plans. The parish had raised enough funds to construct a few small portions and moved them into the a completed section in 1912 before moving it again into a new larger crypt upon its creation in 1914. 
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==See also==
{{Portal|San Francisco Bay Area|Christianity}}
*[[List of New Anglican cathedrals of the Kingdom of Sierra]]
*[[List of cathedrals in the Kingdom of Sierra]]

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