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Added to NRHP. July 12, 1976. The church of St Thomas, the Apostle and Howard-Flaget House is a historic Roman Catholic church and home located at Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. The church is a brick, cross-shaped plan with a round apse. It was designed by Baltimore architect Maximilian Godefroy and built 1813–1816.
The first Catholic church west of the Appalachian Mountains, Holy Cross, was constructed at Pottinger Creek in 1792. [4] In 1792, the Commonwealth of Kentucky was admitted to the union. [ 5 ] In 1793, Stephen T. Badin estimated that 300 Catholic families were living in Kentucky, clustered in six settlements around Bardstown.
The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the pope. With 23 percent of the United States ' population as of 2018 [update] , the Catholic Church is the country's second-largest religious grouping after Protestantism , and the country's largest single church if Protestantism is divided in ...
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington. The Diocese of Lexington (Latin: Dioecesis Lexingtonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, in southeastern Kentucky in the United States. It was erected on January 14, 1988. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Louisville.
The Catholic Church in the United States began in the colonial era, but by the mid-1800s, most of the Spanish, French, and Mexican influences had demographically faded in importance, with Protestant Americans moving west and taking over many formerly Catholic regions. Small Catholic pockets remained in Maryland, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana ...
July 20, 1973. The Roman Catholic St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Kentucky, is a minor basilica in the United States. Construction of the cathedral began under the Diocese of Covington 's third bishop, Camillus Paul Maes, in 1895 to replace an 1834 frame church that was inadequate for the growing congregation.
The Saint Francis of Assisi Complex in Louisville, Kentucky is a historic church at 1960 Bardstown Road. It was built in 1926-28 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] It includes the St. Francis of Assisi School and a rectory, both designed by Fred T. Erhart (1870–1951).
Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption (Covington, Kentucky) Cecelia Memorial Presbyterian Church. Chestnut Street Baptist Church. Christ Episcopal Church (Elizabethtown, Kentucky) Christian Church of West Liberty. Christian Meeting House. Church of Our Merciful Saviour (Louisville, Kentucky) Church of the Annunciation (Shelbyville, Kentucky ...