Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
One of his first acts was to visit every parish, school and other Catholic institution in the diocese. He founded an orphanage for boys in 1850. [14] He continued the construction of the Cathedral of the Assumption, dedicating it in 1852. In 1853, Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Covington, taking eastern Kentucky from the Diocese of ...
The first Catholic immigrants to the Kentucky area came from Maryland in 1785. By 1796, approximately 300 Catholic families were living in the new state of Kentucky. [ 1 ] Among the early missionaries was Stephen Badin , who set out on foot for Kentucky on in 1793, sent by Bishop John Carroll of the Diocese of Baltimore .
The Catholic Church in the United States has a total of 196 particular churches in the 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands: 33 territorial archdioceses, 143 territorial dioceses, the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (serving members of the US Armed Forces and Diplomatic Corps, and those in facilities of the ...
Map of Catholic dioceses in Scotland the Military Ordinariate for Great-Britain for UK-based troops, being joint with England & Wales, is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See Ecclesiastical province of Glasgow. Metropolitan Archdiocese of Glasgow. Diocese of Motherwell; Diocese of Paisley; Ecclesiastical province of St Andrews and ...
The new diocese consisted of eastern Kentucky. [7] Historically, the Catholic population of the diocese was composed primarily of descendants of German immigrants to Covington and Newport in the mid-19th century, who came to the United States in the wake of the German revolutions of 1848 to 1849. Much of the parish architecture in the diocese ...
The Diocese of Owensboro (Latin: Dioecesis Owensburgensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in western Kentucky in the United States. As of 2020 [update] , the diocese contained 78 parishes and two Newman Centers in 32 counties.
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The archdiocese covers the southwest region of the U.S. state of Ohio, including the greater Cincinnati and Dayton metropolitan areas. [1] The cathedral church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Peter in Chains in ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us