Correll, who was pastor of Cathedral of the Cross in Center Point from ... and knew the streets of Jerusalem better than he did Birmingham, he said. Correll and Sheryl, his wife of 49 years ...

When he became pastor of Cathedral of the Cross in 1993, he inherited a mostly empty 8,000-seat church in Center Point.

‘‘It was surprising to see the full extent of the debt,‘’ Correll recalled in a 2007 interview with The Birmingham News about his arrival at Cathedral of the Cross. ‘’When I got ...