Church of Scientology has announced that the next two levels of Scientology teaching, "OT 9" and "OT 10", will be released and made available to church members when all the major organizations in the world have reached Saint Hill size. The "worldwide spiritual headquarters" of the Church of Scientology is known as "Flag Land Base," located in Clearwater, Florida. It is operated by the Floridian corporation Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc.. The organization was founded in 1975 when a Scientology-founded group called "Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp" purchased the Fort Harrison Hotel for $2.3 million. Because the reported tenant was
Former Cathedral Church of Christ the King Former Cathedral Church of Christ the King Cathedral Church of Christ the King was formerly the mother church of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan in Portage, Michigan. In 1965, at the urging of Bishop Charles E. Bennison, a Diocesan Convention approved building the new Cathedral, and the next year Chicago-based architect Irving W. Colburn was hired. In 1967 a congregation was organized and ground broken for the Cathedral of Christ the King. The Cathedral was completed in two years, at a cost of $1,653,729.81, though the building was not consecrated as a cathedral until 1977. The cathedral organ