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Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Portland, Maine) Our Lady Queen of Peace Church (Boothbay Harbor, Maine) All Saints Parish Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church, Boothbay Harbor (Lincoln) Saint Ambrose Church, Richmond (Sagadahoc) Saint Charles Borromeo Church, Brunswick; Saint John the Baptist Church, Brunswick; Saint Katharine Drexel Church ...
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a historic cathedral on Cumberland Avenue in Portland, Maine, which serves as seat of the Diocese of Portland. The rector is Father Seamus Griesbach. [2] The church, an imposing Gothic Revival structure built in 1866–69, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]
St. Peter's Catholic Church is a church located on Federal Street in downtown Portland, Maine, United States.Owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, the church was built in 1929, and—being in the city's Italian neighborhood centered on India Street—today hosts Italian cultural events, including the annual Italian Bazaar on the feast day of Saint Rocco. [1]
The old church building was sold to St. Stephen’s parish. The cathedral was consecrated on October 18, 1877 after the mortgages had been retired. [2] Two year later the cathedral was incorporated by an act of the Maine legislature. Over the years several additions have been made to the cathedral church.
Sacred Heart Church (Portland, Maine) St. Dominic's Church (Portland, Maine) St. Lawrence Arts Center; St. Paul's Church and Rectory; St. Peter's Catholic Church (Portland, Maine) State Street Congregational Church
The first Catholics in present-day Maine were French Jesuit priests who established missions among the Native American tribes. Saint Sauveur mission was founded on Mount Desert Island in 1613. Assumption Mission was established in Augusta in 1646. [2] The Catholic mission to the Penobscot Native Americans was established in 1688 by Louis-Pierre ...
Maine Irish Heritage Center St. Dominic's Church is an historic Catholic church building in Portland, Maine , located at the corner of Gray Street and State Street . When it was dedicated on August 11, 1833, it became the first Roman Catholic church in the city and the third in the state.
In a 2015 article in the Bangor Daily News, it was reported that the Church was one of the few remaining churches in Maine that still offered a Mass in French. [3] It was reported in the Portland Press Herald that an influx of French-speaking Roman Catholic immigrants from central Africa have been a driving force in supporting the French ...