Background
Additional campuses are located in Houston, Mid-Cities, Salt Lake City, and Oklahoma City. Its national outreach program reaches a further on-line audience nationwide. The Cathedral of Hope joined the United Church of Christ in February 2007, having previously been the flagship congregation of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Construction was recently completed on the Cathedral of Hope's Interfaith Peace Chapel, designed by the late prominent architect Philip Johnson (Alan Ritchie Architects). Dedication of the building was on November 7, 2010.
The current senior pastor is the Reverend Jo Hudson, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a graduate of Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Hudson was called to the cathedral in August 2004 and was elected senior pastor in February 2005. She succeeded the Reverend Michael S. Piazza, who was elected senior pastor in 1987 and retired from that position upon Hudson's election.
The CoH is engaged in a long-range goal of expanding its facilities on its Cedar Springs campus. The architect, Philip Johnson, was commissioned in 1995 to create an Interfaith Peace Chapel and a new church with seating for 2,000. The Cathedral of Hope continues to raise funds for these projects and broke ground on the chapel in 2007.
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