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The first Catholic priests in the region came from Kansas and New Mexico during the 1870s, serving the small Catholic population in periodic visits. The first Catholic church in the Texas Panhandle was St. Mary's, dedicated in Clarendon in 1892, to serve Irish and German railroad workers. [ 3 ]
The first Catholic church in Fredericksburg was a log house built in 1848. [2] In 1861 it was replaced by a stone building, completed in 1863. [3] Now called Old St. Mary's, since 1906 this building has served several purposes, including as a schoolhouse. [4]
Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. [5] The city's population in 2020 was 43,645. [6] It is one of the two principal cities in the Sherman–Denison metropolitan statistical area, and is the largest city in the Texoma region of North Texas and southern Oklahoma.
St. Mary's Parish was started at the academy property in 1959. A new church was built for the parish in 1981 and it was destroyed in a fire on February 26, 2007. The first to raise the possibility of St. Mary's becoming a cathedral was Bishop John Yanta. Because he was nearing retirement no action was taken.
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In 1872, after Austin was made the permanent capital of the state, the parish laid the cornerstone for a new church choosing a location one block north of the original building. [3] At the time, Austin was part of the Diocese of Galveston. St. Mary's was finished in 1874 and dedicated in 1884. St. Patrick's was demolished around 1874.
Construction of the second St. Mary's parish began in 1847 in Galveston and in 1848 it was dedicated as St. Mary's Cathedral of the newly established diocese of Galveston. St. Mary's was the first catholic Cathedral in the state of Texas and for over 100 years it was the only cathedral in the Diocese of Galveston. [4]
Parish Location Evidence of Anglo-Catholicity Notes St. Bartholomew's, Clyde Road: Ballsbridge, Dublin Holy Eucharist ad orientem each Sunday, usage of vestments (chasuble, dalmatic); self-described as being one of the few Tractarian parishes within the Church of Ireland; self-identifies as Anglo-Catholic; observes a full calendar of saints; recently abolished regular Wednesday or "midweek ...