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Autocephaly (/ ɔː t ə ˈ s ɛ f əl i /; from Greek: αὐτοκεφαλία, meaning "property of being self-headed") is the status of a hierarchical Christian church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop.
8115 Church Rd., St. Louis, MO 63147-1832 To be merged into the provisionally-named Our Lady of the Holy Cross, St. Augustine, St. Elizabeth, Mother of John the Baptist, and St. Matthew the Apostle Parish on August 1, 2023.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
1963 Autonomous Serbian diocese created; beginning of rapprochement between Metropolia and Moscow Patriarchate (MP); arguing that the Metropolia's 1924 declaration of "temporary self-government" amounted to a canonical declaration of autocephaly, Toward an American Orthodox Church is published by St. Vladimir's professor Alexander Bogolepov ...
The Jesuits established Saint Louis College as Saint Louis University in 1829. Rosati dedicated the Cathedral of St. Louis in 1834, making it the first Catholic cathedral west of the Mississippi River. [21] As Catholic communities started increasing outside of St. Louis, the Vatican erected new dioceses from the Diocese of St. Louis.
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, also known as the Saint Louis Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Completed in 1914, it is the mother church of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and the seat of Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski.
St. Liborius was established as a German national parish in 1856. [2] The church building is a large Gothic Revival structure covered in red brick. It was designed by New York City architect William Shickel. [3] At one time the central bell tower featured a stone tracery spire. It was removed in the 1960s. [4] The church was completed in 1889.
In 1977, St. Henry Church (founded in 1885) merged with Immaculate Conception. [4] The parish became known as Immaculate Conception/St. Henry's and was staffed by the Augustinians . The former St. Henry's Church at Rutger and California Streets was destroyed as a result of two fires in the mid 1990s and had to be torn down. [ 5 ]