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The Archdiocese of Philadelphia covers five Pennsylvania counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia. It is the metropolitan see of the Ecclesiastical Province of Philadelphia. The archdiocese includes the following suffragan dioceses: Allentown; Altoona-Johnstown; Erie; Greensburg; Harrisburg; Pittsburgh; Scranton
9 E. Chestnut Hill Ave, Philadelphia Founded in 1855, current church dedicated that same year [114] St. Athanasius 2050 E. Walnut Ln, Philadelphia Founded in 1928, current church dedicated in 1955 [115] St. Raymond of Penafort 1350 E. Vernon Rd, Philadelphia Founded in 1941, current church dedicated in 1948 [116] St. Vincent de Paul
St. Donato Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia) St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls; Saint Katharine Drexel Mission Center and Shrine; St. Laurentius Parish, Philadelphia; Sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia; St. Basil the Great, Kimberton
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
Old St. Joseph's Church remains an active parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, run by the Jesuit fathers, with Daily Mass at 12:05pm Monday through Saturday, and Sunday Masses at 7:30am, 9:30am, and 11:30am. [8]
Louis A. DeSimone – served as an Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1981 to 1997; Edward T. Hughes – served as the Auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey from 1986 to 1997; Joseph A. Pepe – serves as the second and current Bishop of Las Vegas
As the first Roman Catholic parish in Philadelphia west of the Schuylkil River, St. Agatha-St. James Church is the mother church of West Philadelphia. Originally, a small church dedicated to St James the Greater was constructed in an open field at 38th and Chestnut Streets (then known as Mary and James Streets), but with the rapid influx of ...
The pope named Auxiliary Bishop Hugh L. Lamb of Philadelphia as the first bishop of Greensburg. [7] Under Lamb's direction, the diocese spent nearly $6.5 million on construction or additions to existing facilities. Eight new schools, including Greensburg Central Catholic High School, were created and ten new parishes were established. [8]