About the Cathedral

The Virtual World of Second Life is an international community of some 9.7 million members (as at Sept 07) with more than 1.5 million people logging on in the past 60 days. (For more information on Second Life click here.)

In November 2006 Rocky Vallejo (Bill Sowers in real life, member of St David’s Episcopal Church, Diocese of Kansas) founded the Anglican Group in SL with the following Charter,

A Christian community for those who call themselves: Anglicans, Episcopalians or members of the Church of England, Episcopal Church or any of the other bodies of believers who share the Anglican heritage.

Then in February 07 Arkin Ariantho joined (click here to check out his personal blog) and offered to lead the group. The first meeting of the Anglican group was a small affair (see image below)first-anglican-group-meeting_001.jpg and out of this Arkin/Mark shared a vision of building an Anglican presence in SL through a church.

Elspeth Guyot (SL name) shared the vision with some builder friends which resulted in Monty Merlin (SL name) offering to build the Cathedral with assistance from Elspeth and Barry Lubezki.

From March through to May 07 the Cathedral was built and as it took shape we realised this was going to be something special, something exceptional. (The images below - on the left the early beginnings (8th April 07) . (For the latest images click here.)

showing-rocky-the-cathedral-for-the-first-time-8th-april-07_004.jpg

Several services a Bible Study and some discussion groups are now being run and the Anglican Group has grown to nearly 400 members with between 60 and 80 attending a service each week. (For images from a recent service CLICK HERE) To see what services are on for the coming week CLICK HERE.

To download a paper written by Revd Mark Brown, ‘Christian Mission to a Virtual World’ CLICK HERE.

To read the Vision for the Anglican Community click here

To visit the Cathedral in SL click here

To contact Arkin/Mark Brown: mbrownsky@hotmail.com or check his personal blog out at: www.brownblog.info

For information on the Anglican Church click here

Slide show presentation on the virtual service

A short video of the highlights from the Easter Sunday Service March 2008:

3 Responses to “About the Cathedral”

  1. Phyllis Tickle Says:
    June 9, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    Glorious!

  2. Ulfilas Graves (SL) - Craig Gilman (RL) Says:
    July 7, 2007 at 9:27 pm

    Monty Merlin has done a great job on the build of the cathedral! He’s a very talented chap indeed!

  3. Caoilinn Tigerpaw Says:
    December 30, 2007 at 12:48 am

    The hawk is really cool!

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