Catholic Diocese Offers to Buy Financially Struggling Crystal Cathedral

artwork: The sun reflects off the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif. The bidding war has intensified for the site of Orange County’s famed Crystal Cathedral Ministries, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year. The famous glass-spired church designed by architect Philip Johnson.


GARDEN GROVE, CA
– A Roman Catholic diocese made a $50 million cash offer to buy Southern California’s financially struggling Crystal Cathedral, officials said Friday. The Diocese of Orange said its proposal could pull the megachurch, which was founded more than 50 years ago by pioneering televangelist Rev. Robert H. Schuller, out of bankruptcy by the end of the year. On July 3, 2011, local newspapers and other outlets reported that Robert H. Schuller had been voted off the church’s board of trustees by the other board members.

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