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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 first Catholic presence in Kentucky may have been a group of 25 families who traveled from Maryland in 1785 to Goodwin's Station in present-day Nelson County and founded Holy Cross Church. This was the first church of the Archdiocese of Louisville, and the first Catholic church west of the Allegheny Mountains .
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 Bardstown (Latin: Dioecesis Bardensis) was a Latin Church Catholic diocese in the United States established in Bardstown, Kentucky on April 8, 1808, along with the Diocese of Boston, Diocese of New York, and Diocese of Philadelphia, comprising the former territory of the Diocese of Baltimore west of the Appalachian Mountains. The ...
As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies and missions sui juris ...
Holy Cross Church is a Catholic parish church of the Archdiocese of Louisville located in Holy Cross, Marion County, Kentucky.The congregation was organized in 1785 and the original 1792 log church, sometimes called Sacred Heart, was the first Catholic church located west of the Allegheny Mountains. [1]
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.
John Eric Stowe, O.F.M. Conv., (born April 15, 1966) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been bishop of the Diocese of Lexington in Kentucky since 2015. Biography [ edit ]