Christ Church Cathedral (Falkland Islands)

Christ Church Cathedral
The cathedral and whalebone arch.
Location	Stanley
Country	Falkland Islands
Denomination	Anglican
History
Consecrated	February1892 (February1892)
Administration
Parish	Falkland Islands

Christ Church Cathedral on Ross Road, in Stanley, Falkland Islands, is the southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world, consecrated in 1892. It is the parish church of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the British Antarctic Territories. The Parish of the Falkland Islands is part of the Anglican Communion. The Rector of the Cathedral is under the ordinary jurisdiction of the Bishop of the Falkland Islands; since 1978 this office has been held ex officio by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is both ordinary and metropolitan for the small autonomous diocese. In practice authority is exercised through a bishop-commissary appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and known as the Bishop for the Falkland Islands.

The Cathedral is built on the site of Holy Trinity Church, which was destroyed by the peat slip that destroyed part of Stanley in 1886.

The building was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield and built in 1890–1892 from the local stone and brick.

The Cathedral incorporates a tower with a ring of five bells, 19th and 20th-century stained glass windows and a two manual pipe organ built in Ireland.

Bishop Waite Hockin Stirling consecrated the new Cathedral on Sunday 21st February 1892.

The Cathedral is in possession of the Garter banner of Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, which hung in St. George's Chapel in Windsor during his lifetime.