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It closely resembles Godefroy's earlier St. Mary's Seminary Chapel in Baltimore, another Sulpician church. St. Thomas is the oldest Roman Catholic church in Kentucky and considered "The Cradle of Catholicism in Kentucky." [2] St. Thomas Roman Catholic Church and Howard-Flaget House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]
The first Catholic presence in Kentucky may have been a group of 25 families who traveled from Maryland in 1785 to Goodwin's Station in present-day Nelson County and founded Holy Cross Church. This was the first church of the Archdiocese of Louisville, and the first Catholic church west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Since the late 19th century, the faithful and their meeting places in Ellis County, Kansas, including St. Fidelis Catholic Church, have been overseen by the Capuchin Order, a subset of the Franciscans. [6] A three-story building beside the church is a Friary of the Capuchins, and now houses retired and aging Capuchin priests.
The first Catholic immigrants to the Kentucky area came from Maryland in 1785. By 1796, approximately 300 Catholic families were living in the new state of Kentucky. [ 3 ] Among the early missionaries was Stephen Badin who set out on foot for Kentucky on in 1793, sent by Bishop John Carroll of the Diocese of Baltimore .
Basilica of Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral (Bardstown, Kentucky) The Diocese of Bardstown (Latin: Dioecesis Bardensis) was a Latin Church Catholic diocese in the United States established in Bardstown, Kentucky on April 8, 1808, along with the Diocese of Boston, Diocese of New York, and Diocese of Philadelphia, comprising the former territory of the Diocese of Baltimore west of the Appalachian ...
St. Augustine Catholic Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church near Clarkson, Kentucky, in the Eastern Deanery of the Diocese of Owensboro. It is noted for its historic parish church at 30 St Augustine Church Road in Grayson Springs. Built in 1854, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 7, 1989. [1] [2]
St. Dominic Catholic Church is a Catholic parish church of the Roman Rite on Main Street in Springfield, Kentucky, within the Archdiocese of Louisville. The red Romanesque building was built in 1890 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1] It has a pyramidal tower and roof shingled with fishscale slate.
The St. Francis DeSales Roman Catholic Church (Church of St. Francis de Sales) is a historic church building at 116 S. 6th Street in Paducah, Kentucky. It was built in 1899 and, together with its 1927-built rectory , was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.