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St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church is a historic Catholic church near Capitol Square in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. It was designed by one of Madison's pioneer architects and built in 1888 to serve the former parish of St. Patrick. [1] In 1972, the church was designated a landmark by the Madison Landmarks Commission. [2]
St. Bernard Catholic Church, in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, is a parish church in the Diocese of Madison. The parish was founded in 1907 and the church building was completed in 1927. In 2023, Bishop Donald J. Hying petitioned the Holy See to designate the church building as the diocesan cathedral. Pope Francis erected St. Bernard's as ...
Holy Name Seminary is a former Catholic high school seminary begun in the 1960s on the west side of Madison, Wisconsin. In 2015 the seminary building and some associated structures were added to the National Register of Historic Places as an excellent example of the Neo-Colonial Revival architecture style. [1]
The Library stayed in the City Hall until 1906, when it moved into a new Carnegie library building that included a library school on the second floor until 1938 when the school became part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and moved to the University. In 1965, the Central Library moved to its current location at 201 West Mifflin Street.
Catholic jurisdiction for the new Wisconsin Territory passed to the Diocese of Bardstown in 1808, then the Diocese of Cincinnati in 1826. [5] The first new Catholic church in the Wisconsin area in over 100 years was constructed in Fort Howard in 1825. Its parishioners included many French Canadians living in the settlement. [6]
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The Madison region would remain part of these three dioceses for the next 78 years. In 1871, the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa established the Saint Regina Academy for girls and boys in Madison. [16] Saint Paul’s Catholic Student Center, serving the University of Wisconsin Madison community, was founded in 1906. [17]
On January 9, 1946, Pope Pius XII created the Diocese of Madison for an 11-county area in the southwestern part of the state. Territory was taken from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the Diocese of La Crosse to form the new diocese. [7] St. Raphael's was then chosen as the Cathedral church for the Madison diocese.