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This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts in the United States. The archdiocese includes more than 300 churches. The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral of Holy Cross in Boston. The oldest church in the archdiocese is the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Salem ...
Since all of the churches were Protestant, Robert Laverty, a private citizen, petitioned Bishop Benedict Fenwick of Boston to assign a priest to celebrate mass in Worcester. In result, Father James Fitton, a Boston native, visited Worcester monthly starting in 1834. He laid the foundation for a church on Front Street, known as "Christ's Church".
St. Leonard of Port Maurice Catholic Church, or more simply St. Leonard's, is a parish of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Boston.It is noted for its historic parish church located at the corner of Hanover and Prince Streets in the North End of Boston, one of the oldest churches built by Italian immigrants in the United States. [1]
In 1862, with the North End's composition greatly changed by an influx of Irish Catholics, the church was sold to Bishop Fitzpatrick of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston and renamed St. Stephen's. In the conversion the weathervane was removed, a peak built over the original domed cupola in the manner of Holy Cross Church, and a cross and ...
The Redemptorists built a modest wooden church on the location in 1870. This was to serve as a "mission house", a home base for priests traveling to distant parts of Massachusetts, Canada, and elsewhere. [7] The church was dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The first Catholic Mass was offered on January 29, 1871. The original structure ...
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church: built 1907 1991 NRHP-listed 1703 Dublin Street: Mobile, Alabama: Archdiocese of Mobile, parish church. St. Joseph's Parish was established in 1857. St. Matthew's Catholic Church: built 1913
The Cathedral Parish consists of large English- and Spanish-speaking congregations, drawn largely from the local area, and also includes three Archdiocese-wide congregations: the Ge'ez Rite practiced by Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Catholics; the German Apostolate; and the Tridentine Mass Catholic community. The first of these ...
In Catholic teaching, the holy sacrifice of the Mass is the fulfillment of all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant. In the New Covenant, the one sacrifice on the altar of Calvary is revisited during every Catholic Mass. Jesus Christ merited all graces and blessings for us by His death on the Cross.