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The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, located in Charleston, South Carolina. Designed by Brooklyn architect Patrick Keely in the Gothic Revival style, it opened in 1907. The Most Reverend Jacques E. Fabre, the fourteenth Bishop of Charleston, was ordained and installed on May 13 ...
In 1960, it designated the land for a new to be named St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. On June 2, 1960, Reverend E. Carl Lyon, Assistant Pastor at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Chevy Chase , D.C. , met with Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle (later Cardinal ), and the Archbishop appointed Fr. Lyon to be the pastor of the new parish.
French Catholic émigrés established the first church after they fled Haiti in 1799, following the outbreak of slave rebellions that began on the Caribbean island in 1791. [3] [4] It became the main church for free blacks from Haiti in the early 19th century. [5] Construction began on the new Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in 1873.
The Church of St. John the Baptist is a Catholic parish church in the Archdiocese of New York, at 211 West 30th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Fur District [2] of the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
The St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in Johnsburg in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. The church is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The parish can trace its history back to 1830s German immigrants.
The church building was a 16 ft (4.9 m) by 18 ft (5.5 m) log cabin that also served as a residence for Father Horstmann. [2] [3] The congregation quickly outgrew the original building and, in 1837, a larger hewn-log church was dedicated to St John the Baptist. Father Horstmann died in 1843 and Father Bohne, who took over the parish, began ...
St. John the Baptist Church was founded in 1841 by German Catholic immigrants, [2] mostly from Grossenlueder, a village near Fulda, and the Rhenish Palatinate.The original church at Fourth Street and Howard Avenue was built by the parishioners themselves, many of whom were skilled stonemasons and carpenters.
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States.Located in the unincorporated community of Maria Stein, it is the home of an active congregation and has been recognized as a historic site because of its well-preserved late nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival architecture.