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The Loretto is a multipurpose venue in the Westport neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. It was adapted from a former girls' academy known as Loretto Academy, dedicated in 1904 [2] as a "boarding and day school for girls." [3] It is named after the Sisters of Loretto, who established a presence in Kansas City in 1899. [4]
The next bishop of Kansas City was Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara of the Diocese of Great Falls, named by Pope Pius XII in 1939. [12] Within his first ten years as bishop, O'Hara built or purchased 42 churches, 31 rectories, 24 colleges, high schools, and grade schools, 14 convents, eight social centers, and six hospitals.
The Diocesan School for Girls, Dublin, merged with The High School, Dublin in 1974; New Zealand. Diocesan School for Girls (Auckland) Waikato Diocesan School, Hamilton; South Africa. Diocesan School for Girls, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape; St. Mary's Diocesan School for Girls, Kloof, KwaZulu-Natal; St. John's Diocesan School for Girls ...
The second archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas was Bishop Ignatius Strecker from the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, appointed by Pope Paul VI in 1969. [18] In 1990, Strecker established background and reference checks for all persons working with children, including employees and volunteers, at the archdiocese as part of a policy to ...
The 19,500-seat Kemper Arena was built in 1974 to accommodate Kansas City's professional basketball teams that had been playing at the Auditorium. The Kansas City Kings (known at the time as the Kansas City-Omaha Kings) played their first two seasons at the Auditorium, then returned for the majority of the 1979–80 season after the roof of ...
The Kansas attorney general's letters to superintendents of three Kansas City-area districts, Topeka's superintendent and the Kansas Association of School Boards accused them of having ...
In August 1818, he recruited Sister Rose Philippine Duchesne from the Society of the Sacred Heart in France, to open girls schools in the diocese. [10] [7] Duchesne founded the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Charles, the first free school west of the Mississippi River, along with another girls school in Florissant.
Community concern about missing Black women in KC has led to questions about the effectiveness of missing persons reports. We speak to experts about how the process works.