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The parish was founded in 1818 and the current church building was completed in 1864. When the Holy See declared the church a minor basilica in 2022, it became the 91st in the United States, the seventh in Ohio, and the first in the Diocese of Columbus. [4]
St. Mary's on the Flats, originally known as the Church of Our Lady of the Lake, [1]: 34–35 [2]: 8 was the first Catholic church building in Cleveland, Ohio.The location where the church once stood can be found, in an 1881 atlas, [3] at the south-east corner of Columbus Ave. and then Girard Ave. on the east bank of the Cuyahoga river in the flats.
In 1856, Fr. Casper Borgess, the pastor of the church, brought Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur from Cincinnati to teach, the first religious women to teach in the city. [7] The Sisters of Notre Dame left in 1961 after the closure of the school making their tenure at Holy Cross the longest in the community's history in the United States. [ 11 ]
Episcopal Church laws were changed to permit women's ordination on September 16, 1976. [143] Since 1976, the denomination called the Evangelical Covenant Church has ordained and licensed women as ministers. [144] 1977: On January 1, 1977, Jacqueline Means became the first woman ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church. [145]
2012 – The 2012 Summer Olympics in London were the first Games in which women competed in all sports in the program, [323] and every participating country included female athletes. [ 324 ] [ 325 ] The U.S. Olympic team had more women than men for the first time — 269 female athletes to 261 men.
The church reopened for worship on April 19, 2019, for the Palm Sunday Vigil Mass. [11] Following these renovations, the church was chosen as the best religious wedding venue in the city of Columbus by the readers of Columbus Monthly in 2022. [12] It also served as a performance venue for Central Ohio chamber orchestra ProMusica Columbus. [13]
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