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1050 Porter St., Detroit Gothic Revival Patrick C. Keely Detroit's second oldest parish, founded in 1834. Church has stained glass windows created by Ignace Schott and Friedrichs & Staffin [37] [38] Our Lady of Guadalupe 4329 Central Ave, Detroit [39] St. Francis D'Assisi - St. Hedwig 1889 and 1903 4500 Wesson St., Detroit 3245 Junction St ...
In the 1870s, Polish immigrants began settling on the west side of Detroit. [2] As the population grew, several Polish Catholic parishes were established, including St. Casimir (in 1882), St. Francis of Assisi (in 1889), St. Hedwig (in 1903), Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (in 1911), and Our Lady Queen of Angels (in 1915). [2]
St. Gregory High School, Detroit (closed 1969) St. Hedwig High School, Detroit (closed 1990) St. Henry High School, Lincoln Park (closed 1939) St. Josaphat High School, Detroit (closed 1960) St. Joseph High School, Detroit (closed 1964) St. Katharine Drexel, Redford (closed 2004) St. Ladislaus High School, Hamtramck (closed 1981) St. Leo High ...
St. Patrick’s first building opened in 1859. The present building was dedicated in 1867. St Hedwig was founded in 1877. The current church was dedicated in 1883.
The Academy of the Americas (Spanish: Academia de las Américas) is a public pre-kindergarten through high school of Detroit Public Schools, with its primary school campus located in the former St. Hedwig School in southwest Detroit. It offers a Spanish-English bilingual program. [1]
Later, St. Andrew's (in 1983), St. Hedwig's (in 1990) and St. Alphonsus' (in 2003) closed, leaving Holy Redeemer the only Catholic high school on the southwest side of Detroit. The Archdiocese of Detroit, which once maintained over 100 high schools throughout the Metro Detroit Region, had just 24 remaining high schools.
In 1907, St. Francis's Home for Orphan Boys opened in Detroit, built at a cost of $250,000. [22] Foley established the first parish for African Americans, St. Peter Claver, in Detroit, in 1911, although chapels and missions for African-American Catholics had existed since the late 1870s. [24]
The Church of the Transfiguration Historic District is a group of buildings associated with what was the Church of the Transfiguration Roman Catholic parish (and is now the Saint John Paul II parish), located at 5830 Simon K in Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. [1]