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701 Gaul St, Philadelphia Founded in 1905 [123] Old St. Joseph's: 321 Willings Alley, Philadelphia Founded in 1733, current church dedicated in 1739. It is the oldest Catholic church in any urban area in the United States. [124] [125] Old St. Mary's: 248 S. 4th St, Philadelphia Founded in 1763 [126] [127] Our Lady of Mount Carmel 2319 S. 3rd St ...
Saint Anne Church (Philadelphia) St. Augustine Church (Philadelphia) St. Donato Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia) St. John Cantius Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia; St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Manayunk; St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) St Nicholas of Tolentine, Philadelphia
The Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church is located at Front and Allen Streets in Philadelphia, PA 19123 in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania section of the city; after over 140 years as an independent parish, it became a worship site of the adjacent St. Michael's parish in 2011.
Saint Paul Church: 923 Christian Street Saint Peter the Apostle 1019 North 5th Street (at Girard Avenue) National Shrine of Saint John Neumann: National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia: 1166 South Broad Street Saint Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church 608 Welsh Road St. William Church: 6200 Rising Sun Avenue Stella Maris Catholic Church: 2901 ...
View of the churchyard at St. Michael's Church. The initial church was destroyed in the Nativist Riots of 1844. The unrest began when the Catholic Bishop Francis Kenrick petitioned the Public School Board to allow use of the Douay-Rheims (Catholic) translation of the Bible by Catholic students, instead of forcing them to use the Authorized (King James/Protestant) Version as did other students.
The cornerstone of the new Church of St. Veronica was blessed on November 3, 1907, and opened in 1909. Today it is a sister parish to Saints Simon and Jude Parish in West Chester, Pennsylvania. [10] St. Veronica School is an Independence Mission School today, one of 14 Philadelphia schools that were deemed "failing" by the state.
A small stone Protestant Episcopal church, the Church of the Resurrection, was erected in 1853 on North Broad and Tioga streets, in the center of what was then known as Rising Sun Village but later was absorbed into Franklinville. [19] The Methodist Episcopal Church at 5th and Erie Street, was founded in 1857.
In 2012, about 25% of the students in Philadelphia Catholic elementary schools were not Catholic. [17] In 2010 South Philadelphia Catholic elementary schools had 2,572 students, a decline by 27% from the 2006 figure. [16]