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The Diocese of Erie (Latin: Dioecesis Eriensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in western Pennsylvania in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The Diocese of Erie was founded on July 29, 1853. Its mother church is St. Peter's Cathedral in Erie.
St. Mark Seminary is a diocesan minor seminary operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie and located on a campus in the southeast corner of the city of Erie, Pennsylvania. Seminarians in residence at the seminary pursue philosophy and liberal arts studies at Gannon University. The seminary houses seminarians from the Roman Catholic Diocese ...
Michael O'Connor, S.J. (September 27, 1810 – October 18, 1872) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States and a member of the Society of Jesus. He served twice as bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania (1843 to early 1853 and late 1853 to 1860).
The church was built by German settlers in about 1851 and served until about 1880. It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story log structure with a gable roof and steeple.The building measures approximately forty-five feet in length by twenty-four feet in width and rests upon a rock foundation.
Established circa 500 as Abbacy nullius of Connor / Connoren(sis) (Latin). The origins of the Irish prelatures are generally fuzzy until the twelfth century as the monasteries were the stable institutions leading ecclesiastical jurisdictions, with some of their abbots were individually consecrated bishop, without raising their sees to permanently residential dioceses.
From the nave of the church, one can see a collection of the likenesses of the diocese's nine bishops and Auxiliary Bishop Edward P. McManaman, who served as Cathedral Rector from 1936 to 1948. [1] The cathedral has a new baptistery. The center aisle is of Spanish and Italian marble.
The diocese itself was erected in 480. [1] Tradition holds that St. Patrick herded sheep on Slemish, in the heart of the Diocese, when first brought to Ireland as a slave. St. Malachy, the great reformer of the Irish church, was consecrated Bishop of Connor in 1124 and remained until his translation to the Archbishopric of Armagh in 1132.
During the next few months, the Diocese of Erie took feedback from members of the pastors and parishioners of both parishes. With the new feedback, an official decree [ 4 ] was released on September 16, 2016, officially announcing the merger that would become effective on February 13, 2017.