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St. Mary's (German) Church was a Roman Catholic church in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, noteworthy for being the only church in the United States built in the early Christian Basilica model. During the 1980s, the church hosted a Broadway -inspired stage show in its parish hall featuring Rev. Tom Smith.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, more commonly known as Historic St. Mary's Church (German: St. Marien-Kirche), is a Roman Catholic church located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1741, throughout most of its history, the church served the German-speaking Catholics of Lancaster.
Our Lady Help of Christians (German) is a historic Catholic church at the corner of East Allegheny Avenue and Gaul Street in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and serves the German-speaking population in the area. The parish was founded in 1885 and the church was constructed in 1898. [1]
South central Pennsylvania would remain part of this new diocese for the next 60 years. In Harrisburg, the first Catholic Church, St. Patricks, was established for an Irish congregation in 1826. [6] St. Mary's parish was founded in York by the missionary John Neumann in 1852 for a congregation of German-speaking Catholics. [7]
The tide of German immigration to Pennsylvania swelled between 1725 and 1775, with immigrants arriving as redemptioners or indentured servants. By 1775, Germans constituted about one-third of the population of the state. German farmers were renowned for their highly productive animal husbandry and agricultural practices.
By the 1780s, half of Philadelphia's Catholic population was German, and they asked permission of John Carroll, the Apostolic Prefect of the United States, to build their own church. [1] Holy Trinity Church was founded in 1784 by German-speaking Catholics, [2] and in 1788, Carroll authorized it as a national parish for Germans. [1]
St. Mary's church, finished in 1842, was the first Catholic church in Wilkes-Barre. [9] The first one in Scranton was built in 1852 on the site of the present day Church of Nativity. [10] In Williamsport, a German group erected the first Catholic church, St. Boniface, in 1855. [11]
The original abbey structures, including the present church, were designed by the German-American architect J. William Schickel and built between 1891 and 1905. The archabbey church was dedicated by bishop Regis Canevin of Pittsburgh on August 24, 1905 [ 3 ] and declared a minor basilica by Pius XII on the same date in 1955.