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The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, more commonly known as Historic St. Mary's Church (German: St. Marien-Kirche), is a Roman Catholic church located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1741, throughout most of its history, the church served the German-speaking Catholics of Lancaster.
St. Mary's (German) Church was a Roman Catholic church in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, noteworthy for being the only church in the United States built in the early Christian Basilica model. During the 1980s, the church hosted a Broadway -inspired stage show in its parish hall featuring Rev. Tom Smith.
Our Lady Help of Christians (German) is a historic Catholic church at the corner of East Allegheny Avenue and Gaul Street in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and serves the German-speaking population in the area. The parish was founded in 1885 and the church was constructed in 1898. [1]
Holy Trinity Church was founded in 1784 by German-speaking Catholics, [2] and in 1788, Carroll authorized it as a national parish for Germans. [1] It was the first national parish for any ethnicity in the United States, and was the third parish established in the city of Philadelphia, predating the establishment of the Archdiocese of ...
Bridesburg is the northernmost neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] A mostly working-class neighborhood, Bridgesburg is an historically German and Irish community, with a significant community of Polish immigrants who arrived mostly in the early- to mid-twentieth century.
The tide of German immigration to Pennsylvania swelled between 1725 and 1775, with immigrants arriving as redemptioners or indentured servants. By 1775, Germans constituted about one-third of the population of the state. German farmers were renowned for their highly productive animal husbandry and agricultural practices.
The Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie Deitschland, Deitscherei, or Pennsilfaanisch-Deitschland), or Pennsylvania Dutchland, [4] [5] is a region of German Pennsylvania spanning the Delaware Valley and South Central and Northeastern regions of Pennsylvania.
With the passage of the US Bill of Rights in 1791, Catholics received full freedom of worship. In 1808, Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Philadelphia, covering all of Pennsylvania. [5] As the Catholic population grew in Pennsylvania in the 19th century, the Vatican erected the Diocese of Pittsburgh in 1843 to cover the northwestern part of ...