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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington (Latin: Dioecesis Covingtonensis) is a Latin Church diocese in Northern Kentucky in the United States. The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington. On July 13, 2021, Pope Francis appointed John Iffert, a priest of the Diocese of Belleville, as bishop of ...
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.
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 Diocese of Owensboro (Latin: Dioecesis Owensburgensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in western Kentucky in the United States. As of 2020, the diocese contained of 78 parishes and two Newman Centers in 32 counties. [2][1] The Diocese of Owensboro is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical ...
St. Aloysius Church (Pewee Valley, Kentucky) St. Augustine Catholic Church (Grayson Springs, Kentucky) St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church (Paducah, Kentucky) St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church (Wilder, Kentucky) St. Joseph Catholic Church (Camp Springs, Kentucky) St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Bowling Green, Kentucky)
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.
In the United States, there are more than 20,000 Catholic buildings [citation needed].Among these numerous Catholic churches and cathedrals are notable. Notable ones include any that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places [1] or on state and local historic registers.
St. Augustine was the fifth Catholic parish established in Covington and the original St. Augustine church was built in 1870. The Reverend Father Joseph Goebbels led the church in the 1870s and organized a wire nail factory to pay back the debt incurred in constructing the church. The enterprise was not successful, in part because of the Panic ...