Following Lefevere's death, Caspar Borgess, the second Bishop of Detroit, used the church as his cathedral[REF] until 1877, when he gave the title to the building to the Jesuit Order with the intention of starting Detroit's first Catholic college [REF].
The church was altered in 1879 and 1882, completely renovated in 1892,[REF] and remodeled again in 1911 [REF].