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The first Catholic church west of the Appalachian Mountains, Holy Cross, was constructed at Pottinger Creek in 1792. [4] In 1792, the Commonwealth of Kentucky was admitted to the union. [ 5 ] In 1793, Stephen T. Badin estimated that 300 Catholic families were living in Kentucky, clustered in six settlements around Bardstown.
The first Catholic immigrants to the Kentucky area came from Maryland in 1785. By 1796, approximately 300 Catholic families were living in the new state of Kentucky. [ 3 ] Among the early missionaries was Stephen Badin who set out on foot for Kentucky on in 1793, sent by Bishop John Carroll of the Diocese of Baltimore .
Mother of God Parish (German: Mutter Gottes Kirche) is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, United States, located at 119 West 6th Street in Covington. The official title of the parish is The Assumption of Mary, Mother of God, Parish. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The church of St Thomas, the Apostle and Howard-Flaget House is a historic Roman Catholic church and home located at Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. The church is a brick, cross-shaped plan with a round apse. It was designed by Baltimore architect Maximilian Godefroy and built 1813–1816. It closely resembles Godefroy's earlier St. Mary's ...
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church (Paducah, Kentucky) Saint Francis of Assisi Complex; St. George's Roman Catholic Church (Louisville) St. James Catholic Church (Louisville, Kentucky) Saint James' Episcopal Church (Pewee Valley, Kentucky) St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church (Wilder, Kentucky) St. John's Methodist Church (Shelbyville ...
Sacred Heart Church (Bellevue, Kentucky) St. Aloysius Church (Pewee Valley, Kentucky) St. Augustine Catholic Church (Grayson Springs, Kentucky) St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church (Paducah, Kentucky) St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church (Wilder, Kentucky) St. Joseph Catholic Church (Camp Springs, Kentucky)
As the town and parish continued to grow a larger church was needed and so a second church was built on the same site as the first in 1856. The present church was built on Locust Street between 1924 and 1926. On December 9, 1937 Pope Pius XII established the Diocese of Owensboro. [2] St. Stephen's was chosen as the new diocese's cathedral.
The Roman Catholic St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Kentucky, is a minor basilica in the United States.Construction of the cathedral began under the Diocese of Covington's third bishop, Camillus Paul Maes, in 1895 to replace an 1834 frame church that was inadequate for the growing congregation.