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The church of St Thomas, the Apostle and Howard-Flaget House is a historic Roman Catholic church and home located at Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. The church is a brick, cross-shaped plan with a round apse. It was designed by Baltimore architect Maximilian Godefroy and built 1813–1816. It closely resembles Godefroy's earlier St. Mary's ...
The Basilica of Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral is a Catholic parish church at 310 West Stephen Foster Avenue in Bardstown, Kentucky.It is the original cathedral of the present Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, originally erected as the Diocese of Bardstown — "proto-cathedral" means the original cathedral of a see that has transferred or moved.
Most of the early Catholic settlers in Kentucky were English Catholics from Maryland. [4] The Vatican in 1789 elevated the prefecture to the Diocese of Baltimore, the first diocese in the United States, covering the entire nation. [3] The first Catholic church west of the Appalachian Mountains, Holy Cross, was constructed at Pottinger Creek in ...
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. [3] 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 Saint Francis of Assisi Complex in Louisville, Kentucky is a historic church at 1960 Bardstown Road. It was built in 1926-28 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] It includes the St. Francis of Assisi School and a rectory, both designed by Fred T. Erhart (1870–1951).
As the town and parish continued to grow a larger church was needed and so a second church was built on the same site as the first in 1856. The present church was built on Locust Street between 1924 and 1926. On December 9, 1937 Pope Pius XII established the Diocese of Owensboro. [2] St. Stephen's was chosen as the new diocese's cathedral.
The present church and rectory were built in the Modern and Art Deco architectural styles from 1965 to 1967 for $1.5 million. [1] On January 14, 1988 Pope John Paul II established the Diocese of Lexington, [3] and Christ the King became the cathedral for the new diocese. The Cathedral Center was added to the parish facilities in 1992.
St. Dominic Catholic Church is a Catholic parish church of the Roman Rite on Main Street in Springfield, Kentucky, within the Archdiocese of Louisville. The red Romanesque building was built in 1890 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1] It has a pyramidal tower and roof shingled with fishscale slate.