This article is about the Oxford college. For other uses, see Christ Church or Christchurch (disambiguation).
Christ Church (Latin: Ædes Christi, the temple or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As well as being a college, Christ Church is also the cathedral church of the diocese of Oxford, namely Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. The cathedral...
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This article is about the Oxford college. For other uses, see Christ Church or Christchurch (disambiguation).
Christ Church (Latin: Ædes Christi, the temple or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As well as being a college, Christ Church is also the cathedral church of the diocese of Oxford, namely Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. The cathedral has a famous men and boys' choir, and is one of the main choral foundations in Oxford. It was founded as the Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford, which was a house of the Augustinian canons that was later suppressed as a monastic church under Henry VIII's dissolution of monasteries.
Christ Church has produced thirteen British prime ministers (the two most recent being Anthony Eden from 1955-1957 and Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1963–1964), which is more than all other Oxford colleges put together and more than any Cambridge college (and two short...
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