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5020 Rhodes Ave., St. Louis, MO 63109-3589 To be merged into the provisionally-named Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Mary Magdalen, and St. Joan of Arc Parish on August 1, 2023. The church building housing the merged parish is to be determined. [29] Our Lady of the Holy Cross 8115 Church Rd., St. Louis, MO 63147-1832
During the Age of Discovery, the Catholic Church established a number of missions in the Americas and other colonies through the Augustinians, Franciscans, and Dominicans in order to spread Catholicism in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous people.
Saint Francis University (Loretto, Pennsylvania) - Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular; University of Saint Francis (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration; University of St. Francis (Joliet, Illinois) - Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate; Villa Maria College (Buffalo, New York) - Felician Sisters
The Dominicans were founded by St. Dominic and received papal approval from Honorius III in 1216 as the Ordo Praedicatorum under the Rule of St. Augustine. They became a mendicant order in 1221. There are also Dominican Orders within the Anglican Communion, such as the Order of Christ the Saviour. [5]
St. Francis de Sales Church (the Oratory of Saint Francis de Sales) is a Roman Catholic Oratory located in south St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It is the second largest church in the Archdiocese of St. Louis after the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis (St. Louis). The church is popularly known as the "Cathedral of South St. Louis".
In 1977, St. Henry Church (founded in 1885) merged with Immaculate Conception. [4] The parish became known as Immaculate Conception/St. Henry's and was staffed by the Augustinians. The former St. Henry's Church at Rutger and California Streets was destroyed as a result of two fires in the mid 1990s and had to be torn down. [5]
In 1906, Mother Solana signed a court document giving the Sisterhood an official title the Polish Franciscan School Sisters of St. Louis. The congregation was known by that name for over twenty years. [4] From 1907 to 1957, the Sisters' central headquarters was the Motherhouse at 3419 Gasconade Street in South St. Louis.
The Jesuits established Saint Louis College as Saint Louis University in 1829. Rosati dedicated the Cathedral of St. Louis in 1834, making it the first Catholic cathedral west of the Mississippi River. [21] As Catholic communities started increasing outside of St. Louis, the Vatican erected new dioceses from the Diocese of St. Louis.