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Cottleville is home to Francis Howell Central High School, Louis C. Saeger Middle School and Warren Elementary School. St. Joseph Catholic School is also located in Cottleville, providing classes for grades K-8; St. Joseph Catholic Church is the largest church by number of parishioners in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis.
Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick of St. Louis dedicated the church, named St. Joseph's Church, on June 17, 1847. The parish had 20 families at the time. [ 2 ] Father Scanlan died in 1860 and was replaced by the Rev. John Hennessy who served the parish until he was named third Bishop of Dubuque in 1893.
Postal: c/o 124 Holy Family Church Rd., New Haven, MO 63068 St. Gertrude 6535 Highway YY, Washington, MO 63090-4074 St. James (Catawissa) 1107 Summit Dr., Catawissa, MO 63015-1404 St. John the Baptist (Gildehaus) 5567 Gildehaus Rd., Villa Ridge, MO 63089-1228 St. Joseph (Neier) 2401 Neier Rd., Union, MO 63084-3411 St. Mary of Perpetual Help
The pope named Bishop John Joseph Hogan from the Diocese of St. Joseph as the first bishop of Kansas City. [8] The Jesuit Order opened Rockhurst College in Kansas City in 1910. [ 9 ] In 1919, Bishop Thomas Francis Lillis from the Diocese of Leavenworth was named by Pope Pius X as coadjutor bishop to assist Hogan.
Other area options include: Catholic Parish Schools such as St. Joseph's of Cottleville; also, many parents choose to educate their children in Catholic primary schools (Academy of the Sacred Heart, Visitation Academy, Priory, and St. Peters School are the biggest ones) and Catholic secondary education (Cor Jesu Academy, Nerinx Hall, Ursuline ...
The Archdiocese of St. Louis (Latin: Archidiœcesis Sancti Ludovici) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of November 2024, the archdiocese is led by Archbishop Mitchell Thomas Rozanski, formerly the Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts. [2]
St. Joseph was founded on the Missouri River by Joseph Robidoux, a local fur trader of French Canadian descent. It was officially incorporated in 1843. [ 6 ] In its early days, it was a bustling outpost and rough frontier town, serving as a last supply point and jumping-off point for travelers on the Missouri River toward the "Wild West" .
After the founding of Saint Joseph, MO by Joseph Rubidoux in 1843, the first Catholic church in the town was built in 1847. Its first pastor was Rev. Thomas Scanlon. In September of 1847, this church was dedicated by the Archbishop of St. Louis, Archbishop P.R. Kenrick.