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It was the first Catholic school on the Florida Gulf Coast. [32] That same year, St. James Church was dedicated in Orlando, the first Catholic church in that city. It is now St. James Cathedral. [33] Arizona jurist Edmund F. Dunne established the Catholic colony of San Antonio in Pasco County on the Gulf Coast in the early 1880s. Residence in ...
St. James Parish traces its roots to May 20, 1881, when Bishop John Moore of the Diocese of St. Augustine, which then covered the entire state of Florida, purchased land to establish the first Catholic Church in the Orlando area. The first permanent pastor, Father Felix P. Swembergh arrived in 1885 to organize the congregation from the area's ...
In 1889, Bishop John Moore asked the Benedictines to establish several mission churches on the Florida Gulf Coast from Pasco County northward. [15] Saint Mary, Our Lady of Grace, founded in 1908, was the first Catholic parish in St. Petersburg. [16] The first Catholic church in Clearwater, St. Cecilia, was dedicated in 1924. [17]
Gesù Parish in Miami, founded in 1896, was the first parish founded in South Florida outside of the Florida Keys. [22] The first Catholic church in Homestead was Sacred Heart, constructed in 1917. [23] In the 1950s and early 1960s, St. Augustine bishop Joseph Hurley purchased land throughout South Florida in anticipation of a future population ...
On March 11, 1870, Pius IX elevated the Vicariate of Florida into the Diocese of St. Augustine and named Vérot as its first bishop. [13] The new diocese covered all of Florida except for the Florida Panhandle region. Vérot died in 1876. In 1877, Pius IX named Reverend John Moore of Charleston as the second bishop of St. Augustine.
David Levy Yulee, one of the first United States senators from Florida, established the first cross-state railroad running from Fernandina Beach to Cedar Key, which opened on March 1, 1861. When Yulee established the railroad, he platted "new" Fernandina, shifting the town of Fernandina from Old Town to the present location along Centre Street.
Nearly 300 Black churches in Florida are offering Black history lessons in response to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ effort to limit how race and other subjects are taught in schools.
208-foot cross [1]. Mission Nombre de Dios is a Catholic mission founded in 1587 in St. Augustine, Florida, on the west side of Matanzas Bay. [2] It is part of the Diocese of St. Augustine and is likely the oldest extant mission in the continental United States.