Crystal Cathedral, home to the 'Hour of Power,' transforms into Catholic seat

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For nearly 30 years, the Rev. Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral was not only a religious landmark, but an architectural wonder and an embodiment of flush times in Southern California’s Orange County...…

Around the turn of the 21st century, Schuller’s large following of white evangelicals was aging, and the population of nonwhite residents in California was increasing. Membership and donations to Crystal Cathedral began to decline. The cathedral filed for bankruptcy in 2010.
At the same time, the Roman Catholic Church started seeing an increase in Southern California.
In 1976, the Diocese of Orange consisted of about 300,000 Catholics. Today, the numbers are closer to 1.6 million, supporting 62 parishes, 41 schools, three hospitals and care centers and a number of agencies serving the poor, according to The Orange County Register.

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https://religionnews.com/2018/11/28/crystal-cathedral-home-to-the-hour-of-power-transforms-into-catholic-seat/

The RCC in Orange County has increased rom 300,000 to approximately 1.6 in 42 years. But that increase must not be seen as anything other than a local trend.