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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.
Flaget started construction of St. Joseph Cathedral in Bardstown in 1816. He celebrated the first mass there in 1819, although the cathedral was not completed until 1823. Also in 1819, Flaget founded St. Joseph's College in Bardstown. [7] St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral. Over the coming years, the Vatican started reducing the size of the Diocese of ...
Basilica of Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral (Bardstown, Kentucky) 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 ...
The location of Bardstown in the Commonwealth of Kentucky—in 1848, 43 Trappist monks emigrated from France to establish the Abbey of Gethsemani. In September 1805, French Trappists from the Abbey of La Valsainte in Switzerland traveled from Pennsylvania to Louisville, Kentucky.
North Bardstown Cemetery, 0.3 miles south of the junction of U.S. Routes 31E/150 and KY-245 ... Bardstown: 32: St. Joseph Cathedral and College Complex:
De la Croix was listed as an expert architect who had recently completed the Seminary of St. Thomas at Bardstown, Kentucky, and the seminary plans that he drew up for St. Mary's were to be modeled after Bardstown. The planned building was to be 60 feet by 36 feet, and 2 1/2 stories tall, with a full basement, 2 halls, 2 cellars each 25 feet by ...
The Diocese of Bardstown, the first inland diocese in the United States, was established in 1808, [2] with Benedict Joseph Flaget as the first Bishop of Bardstown. The diocese included most of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.
In 1808, Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Bardstown, covering Kentucky and most of the Northwest Territory. St. Mary's Church, the first Catholic church in Covington, was dedicated in 1834. [5] In 1841, Pope Leo suppressed the Diocese of Bardstown, which by this time encompassed only Kentucky.