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View within the cloister, showing vaults; 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. Originally Cardinal College, founded 1525 by Thomas Cardinal Wolsey. Refounded in 1532 as King Henry VIII's College by Henry VIII, to whom Wolsey's property had escheated. Then in 1546 the King, who had broken from the Church of Rome and acquired great wealth through the dissolution of the monasteries in England, refounded the college as Christ Church as part of the re-organisation of the Church of England and made it the cathedral of the recently created diocese of Oxford. Buildings include Christ Church Library; Peckwater Quadrangle; The Great Quadrangle or Tom Quad including Tom Tower; Blue Boar Quadrangle; Canterbury Quadrangle; Christ Church Hall; The Meadow Building; Christ Church Cathedral and Christ Church Picture Gallery. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/15/2008)