Trinity Cathedral (Phoenix, Arizona) Day of 1920. On the third side was Atwood Hall, completed in 1931. In 1914, Trinity Parish was designated to serve as the Pro-Cathedral for the Missionary Jurisdiction of Arizona and following the designation of the missionary jurisdiction as a Diocese in 1959, Trinity became the fourth true Cathedral of The Episcopal Church under the full control of the Bishop and Chapter in 1988 joining Grace Cathedral of San Francisco, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Washington, D.C. Most US Cathedrals of the Episcopal Church in
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco ancestral parish, Grace Church, was founded in 1849 during the California Gold Rush. The cathedral is the daughter of the historic Grace Church. The first little chapel was built in the gold rush year of 1849 and the imposing third church, for a time called Grace "cathedral", was destroyed in the fire following the 1906 earthquake. The family of a railroad baron and banker, William Henry Crocker, gave their ruined Nob Hill property for a diocesan cathedral, which took its name and founding congregation from the nearby parish. In 1865, Mark Twain published (in "The Californian" newspaper) purported private correspondence