Kristus Konungen (Gothenburg)

Kristus Konungen

The parish Kristus Konungen ( "Christ the King") is the oldest of three Catholic parishes in Gothenburg . Their first church, St. Josef, was the second Catholic church consecrated in Sweden after the Reformation, after St. Eugenia . Today's Christ the King's Church was built in 1937/38.

history

The parish was founded in 1862. At first there were fifty believers. Three years later you could inaugurate your own church St. Josef, a small house of God in neo-Gothic style.

As the congregation grew, parish land was purchased in the Heden district in 1928 in order to build a new, larger church, school and parsonage. On October 31, 1937 the foundation stone was laid for the church, whose patronage Christ the King has now also become the name of the parish. The last Sunday mass was celebrated in St. Joseph on September 25, 1938, and the first in Christ the King on October 2, 1938. The parish had grown to 500 people. In 1961 there were nearly three thousand. At the end of the 1990s the parish had more than seven thousand believers of different nationalities.

organ

The organ was built in 1907 by the organ builder JW Walker & Sons Ltd. built. The instrument was in the First Church of Christ Scientists on Sloane Terrace (Chelsea, London) until 2004; When the church was converted into a concert hall in 2004, the Christ the King Congregation in Gothenburg bought the instrument and had it restored by Tore Johansson, the organ builder Tostared. It was inaugurated in Christ the King's Church in January 2010. The organ has 51 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The actions are electric.

I choral work C – c 4 Lovely covered 16 ′ Violin diapason 8th' Lovely covered 8th' Dulciana 8th' Concert flute 4 ′ Dulcet 4 ′ Piccolo 2 ′ Sesquialtera II Clarinet 8th' Orchestral oboe 8th' Tremulant Tromba (from HW) 8th' Chimes

II main work C – c 4 Double Open Diapason 16 ′ Open Diapason No. 1 8th' Open Diapason No. 2 8th' Open Diapason No. 3 8th' Forest flood 8th' Dulciana 8th' Octave 4 ′ Harmonic flute 4 ′ Twelfth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Fifteenth 2 ′ Tromba 8th' Chimes (from SW)

III Swell C – c 4 Lovely bourdon 16 ′ Open diapason 8th' Stopped diapason 8th' Viola da gamba 8th' Voix Celeste TC 8th' Principal 4 ′ Suabe Flute 4 ′ Fifteenth 2 ′ Mixture III Contra fagotto 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' oboe 8th' Clarion 4 ′ Tremulant Chimes (from SW)

Pedals C – g 1 Sub bourdon 32 ′ Open Wood 16 ′ Bourdon 16 ′ Viol 16 ′ Darling Bourdon (from SW) 16 ′ Quint 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave 8th' Bass flute 8th' Octave Viol 8th' Echo Flute (from SW) 8th' Octave Flute 4 ′ Trombones 16 ′ Fagotto (from SW) 16 ′ Tromba (from HW) 8th' Basson (from SW) 8th' Octave Basson (from SW) 4 ′ Chimes (from SW)

• Coupling : I / II, II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P; Sub- and super-octave coupling.

Pastor of Kristus Konungen (until 1938 St. Josef)

• Jean Claude Lichtlé; 1864-1866
• John Jurzick; 1866-1875
• Albert Bitter; 1875-1885
• Julius Lohmeyer SJ ; 1885-1913
• Johan van Gijsel SCJ ; 1913-1916
• Theodor van Heugten SCJ; 1916-1926
• George Kuipers SCJ; 1927-1936
• Frans Krijn; 1937-1941
• Willem Meijerink; 1941-1959
• Paul Mueller; 1959-1961
• Sigfrid van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie; 1961-1975
• Francis Zielinski; 1976-1979
• Victor Doran CP; officiating February 1–15. July 1979
• Eugene Dyer, acting July 16 – May 31. December 1979
• Rafael Saráchaga; 1980-1986
• John McCormack CP ; 1986-1993
• George sword; 1993-2006
• Lars Cavallin; 2006-2007
• Tobias Unnerstål; 2007 – today

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of the community ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ More information about the organ

Web links

Commons : Kristus Konungen (Göteborg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Kristus Konungen Congregation

Coordinates: 57 ° 42 ′ 15.6 "  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 40.2"  E