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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.
Most of the early Catholic settlers in Kentucky were English Catholics from Maryland. [4] The Vatican in 1789 elevated the prefecture to the Diocese of Baltimore, the first diocese in the United States, covering the entire nation. [3] The first Catholic church west of the Appalachian Mountains, Holy Cross, was constructed at Pottinger Creek in ...
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 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. [1] 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.
The Basilica of Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral is a Catholic parish church at 310 West Stephen Foster Avenue in Bardstown, Kentucky.It is the original cathedral of the present Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, originally erected as the Diocese of Bardstown — "proto-cathedral" means the original cathedral of a see that has transferred or moved.
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)
Catholic universities and colleges in Kentucky (3 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Catholic Church in Kentucky" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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 ...