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Diocese of Grand Rapids in red. This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids.The diocese is located in the western portion of Michigan's lower peninsula and includes the city of Grand Rapids and 11 counties: Ionia, Kent, Lake, Mason, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, Osceola, and Ottawa.
Diocese of Marquette marked in red. This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette.The diocese covers 16,377 square miles comprising the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and is divided into seven administrative vicariates as follows:
As of 2013, the Diocese of Saginaw had 113 priests, 19 permanent deacons, 122 religious, 18 pastoral administrator, 261 commissioned lay ministers, and 24 seminarians. There were 101,000 Catholics (19.3% of the total population of 724,142) in 56 parishes. Map of the present diocesan boundaries with parishes indicated
Diocese of Lansing in red. This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing. [1] The Lansing diocese includes three of Michigan's largest cities (Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Flint) and covers 10 counties as follows: Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Hillsdale, Ingham, Jackson, Lenawee, Livingston, Shiawassee and Washtenaw.
St. Hyacinth Church, 1515 Cass Ave, Bay City Founded in 1905, current church built between 1950 and 1952. Became part of Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish in 2014 [5] St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, 1503 Kosciuszko Ave, Bay City Neo-Gothic church built between 1890 and 1892 to serve Polish immigrants; registered as a Michigan Historic Site.
In 1763, the Michigan area became part of the British Province of Quebec, forbidden from settlement by American colonists. After the American Revolution, the Michigan region became part of the new United States. For Catholics, Michigan was now under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, which then comprised the entire country.
The Catholic community were served by itinerant missionary priests several times a year, holding mass in private homes. One of these itinerant priests was Ignatius Mrak, who had established a mission nearby at Peshawbestown. Mrak went on to become Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie and Marquette, succeeding Frederic Baraga. Mrak resigned his post in ...
The first Catholic presence in present-day Michigan was that of the French Jesuit missionaries, Reverends Charles Raymbaut and Isaac Jogues. The two priests stopped near what is now Sault Ste. Marie in 1641 to visit the Chippewa Nation. [5] In 1670, Reverend Claude Dablon established the first Catholic mission in the region on Mackinac Island.