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Initially ministered to by the Rev. Moses Whitty, the pastor of Scranton's St. Vincent de Paul Church (now St. Peter's Cathedral), many of these worshippers then began attending St. Simon the Apostle's, the new church built by Whitty in Dunmore in 1856. The pastor there at this time was Father Edmund W. Fitzmaurice; he was succeeded by Father ...
The Diocese of Scranton (Latin: Dioecesis Scrantonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in northeastern Pennsylvania in the United States. It is a suffragan see of Archdiocese of Philadelphia, established on March 3, 1868. The mother church of the Diocese of Scranton is St. Peter's Cathedral in ...
The church was built in 1867, as the parish church of St. Vincent de Paul.In 1883–84, a project was undertaken to remodel and embellish the church, which by now was the central church of the diocese, and on September 28, 1884, the new mother church of the diocese was consecrated by Archbishop P. J. Ryan of Philadelphia, and its name changed to the Cathedral of St. Peter, marking its new role ...
Born near Kraków, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1893 and was ordained that year; in 1897, he became pastor of St. Stanislaus Cathedral in Scranton. Continued discontent led to an open rupture with the U.S. Catholic Church in 1897, when Polish immigrants founded an independent Polish body, headquartered in Scranton, with initially some 20,000 ...
The Roman Catholic bishop of Scranton Joseph Bambera and bishop emeritus James Timlin also attended the event. [ 4 ] In December 2016 the church announced that St. Stanislaus Elementary School, which had been run by the cathedral for over 120 years, would close in June 2017, citing a steep decline in enrollment for the past 5 years.
William O'Hara died in Scranton on February 3, 1899, at age 82. [8] At the time of his death, he was the oldest Catholic bishop in the United States. [1] He was buried under the main altar of St. Peter's Cathedral [6] before being exhumed and reinterred at Cathedral Cemetery in Scranton.
Thomas Charles O'Reilly (February 22, 1873 – March 25, 1938) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Latin Diocese of Scranton in Pennsylvania from 1928 to 1938. Biography
Scranton The Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Ann is a Minor Basilica and National Shrine of the Catholic Church located in Scranton, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Scranton . [ 1 ]