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The parish continued to use that facility until the property was bought by the State of Ohio for a new interstate and a new church was built in 1960 on the parish picnic grounds at its current location in Parma. [1] [2] The Eparchy of Parma was established in 1969 and St. John's Church became the cathedral.
St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral is a Ukrainian Catholic cathedral located in Parma, Ohio, in the United States. The cathedral grew out of a parochial school which opened in 1951 and a parish erected in 1959. Construction on the cathedral began in 1982, and was completed in 1985.
Ohio became a major site of ethnic Ukrainian and Ruthenian immigration in the 1870s. By the 1880s, Cleveland and Tremont were sites of major Ukrainian communities. Parma and other Ohio towns were further populated by Ukrainian diaspora fleeing in the wake of the First World War and subsequent incorporation of Ukraine into the Soviet Union. [1]
The Eparchy of Parma (Latin: Eparchia Parmensis Ruthenorum) is an eparchy (diocese) of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church in the midwestern part of the United States. Its episcopal seat is the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Parma, Ohio. The eparchy's liturgies utilize the Byzantine Rite.
Parma (Cleveland area) Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (Byzantine Catholic) 41°24′14″N 81°41′34″W / 41.403883°N 81.692668°W / 41.403883; -81.692668 ( Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (Parma
In 2013, Parma formed a sister-city relationship with Lviv, Ukraine [57] and is home to Ohio's largest Ukrainian community, the majority of whom are foreign born, with more than twice the number of any other city. [58] Parma is the seat of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Josaphat, which was established by Pope John Paul II in 1983.
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