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The Catholic Church of Chicago, 1876. This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.The archdiocese covers Cook and Lake Counties and is organized for administrative purposes into six vicariates as follows:
First United Methodist Church of Chicago; Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago) G. Grace Episcopal Church (Chicago) Greater Union Baptist Church; I.
The church serves as the episcopal seat of the current Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich. Dedicated on November 21, 1875, Holy Name Cathedral replaced the Cathedral of Saint Mary and the Church of the Holy Name, which were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
In the 1950s, Chicago-area Catholics spoke of which churches they attended and identified themselves via these churches. University of Notre Dame professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings stated that knowing one's church revealed demographic information and that it "was an identifier, almost more identifiable than the particular neighborhood that they ...
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in Vicariate I of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Vicariate I covers Lake County, Illinois, and portions of northern Cook County. It includes the communities of Des Plaines, Elk Grove Village, Lake Forest, Mount Prospect, Mundelein, Schaumburg, and Waukegan.
St. Barbara Church (Chicago) St. Edward's Parish (Chicago) St. Jerome Croatian Catholic Church; St. John Cantius Church (Chicago) St. Ladislaus Roman Catholic Church (Chicago) Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church (Chicago) St. Stanislaus Kostka Church (Chicago) St. Thomas Church and Convent; St. Viator Church; Saints Cyril and Methodius ...
The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago was formed on February 12, 1871, by the merger of Westminster Presbyterian Church and North Presbyterian Church. [2] The combined congregation dedicated a new church building on Sunday, October 8, 1871. The Great Chicago Fire began later that day and destroyed the young congregation's new sanctuary.
A new building which could hold up to 10,000 people was dedicated in 1876 and the church was renamed Chicago Avenue Church in June, 1876. [2] Dwight Moody died after an illness in 1899, and in 1908, the church was formally renamed The Moody Church in his honor. A.C. Dixon took over as pastor in 1906 and he stayed until 1911.