The Cathedral congregation forms a circle around the altar during Communion to emphasize the fact that we all minister to one another.
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Welcoming, accepting, and diverse, the cathedral of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, is part of the Episcopal Church, U.S.A., within the Anglican Communion.
Pennsylvania is the oldest diocese in the United States (1784), with one of its newest cathedral foundations (1992).
You will find us ten blocks due west of downtown, in University City. The Cathedral occupies a key location between academia (the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University) and the inner city, with bustling multi-cultural neighborhoods on its doorstep.
Here you will find no cloisters or canonries, but you will find a cathedral on the move, rapidly establishing itself as the heart of one of the biggest metropolitan dioceses in the U.S.
Our worship celebrates both the reassuring richness of our tradition and the adventure of our journey with Jesus of Nazareth into unknown territory. Breath-taking music, from a wide variety of sources and traditions, is an essential part of life as we gather around a table from which all fences and barriers have been removed.
Philadelphia looms large in American history as the place where a Revolution began. At Philadelphia Cathedral we hope to foster a few revolutions of our own, that all people may find it a place of new life in God's abundant blessing.
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