Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is an Episcopal cathedral located in Trenton, New Jersey, United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of New Jersey.

The Rev. Dr. Alfred Baker, rector of Trinity Church in Princeton, New Jersey, has the first recorded mention of a cathedral for the Diocese of New Jersey in a plan he proposed at the Diocesan Convention of 1908. The Rt. Rev. John Scarborough approved of Baker's plan and established a committee of five clergy and five laymen to study the possibility of establishing a cathedral system in the diocese. A plan was proposed and adopted the following year and Bishop Scarborough appointed a Provisional Cathedral Chapter of ten clergy, ten laymen and the Chancellor. The Trustees of the Cathedral Foundation in the Diocese of New Jersey was established in 1913. Over the next several years resolutions to establish a cathedral were passed at the convention, including a scheme to raise the necessary funds. By 1915 Bishop Scarborough was dead and the Rt. Rev. Paul Matthews replaced him. Bishop Matthews saw the need for cathedral works, but not for a cathedra. However, he accepted the offer of the vestry of Christ Church in Trenton of their church as a pro-cathedral. He believed in this way people could visualize the diocesan and cathedral work. The Cathedral League was organized with the responsibility to further the work of the cathedral and to raise the necessary funds. The Rev. Baker was installed as the first Cathedral Dean in 1919.

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