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On September 10, 1880, Pope Leo XIII established the Diocese of Kansas City, with territories taken from the Archdiocese of St. Louis. [5] The pope named Bishop John Joseph Hogan from the Diocese of St. Joseph as the first bishop of Kansas City. [8] The Jesuit Order opened Rockhurst College in Kansas City in 1910. [9]
The Rev. Benedict Roux arrived in Kansas City in 1833. Two years later he built a church out of logs at Eleventh and Broadway that was named St. John Francis Regis. [2] From 1845 to 1880 the parish was served by the Rev. Bernard Donnelly who was a circuit-riding priest. He had a brick church built in 1857 that was named Immaculate Conception.
St. Gabriel the Archangel's Roman Catholic Church (Saddle River, New Jersey) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title St. Gabriel's Church .
Sacred Heart Church, School and Rectory was a historic site at 2540–2544 Madison Avenue and 910 West 26th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The church was built in 1896 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The Rectory and School building were demolished in 2010 [2] but the original church building and its parish hall ...
Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick of St. Louis dedicated the church, named St. Joseph's Church, on June 17, 1847. The parish had 20 families at the time. [ 2 ] Father Scanlan died in 1860 and was replaced by the Rev. John Hennessy who served the parish until he was named third Bishop of Dubuque in 1893.
A rectory was built from 1916 to 1917. Construction began on the current church building in 1925. [1] The first Mass was celebrated in the building on August 1, 1927, and it was dedicated on September 5 of the same year. On May 10, 1947, the See City was transferred from Leavenworth, Kansas to Kansas City by Pope Pius XII. [3]
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City may refer to one of two dioceses in the United States: Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph (Missouri); or; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
James Vann Johnston Jr. (born October 16, 1959) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in Missouri since 2015. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau in Missouri from 2008 to 2015.