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The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Boston (Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Bostoniensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. The archdiocese is the fourth largest in the United States. [3]
St. Anne Church, 90 W Milton St, Boston Founded in 1919, current church dedicated in 1882. Nww part of Blue Hills [6] Catholic Roxbury St. Mary of the Angels Church, 377 Walnut Ave, Boston (Jamaica Plain) Founded in 1906. Now part of Catholic Roxbury [7] Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 14 Montebello Rd, Boston (Jamaica Plain)
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and is the largest Roman Catholic church in New England. [2] When construction was finished, the cathedral rivaled both Old South Church and Trinity Church in grandeur. The cathedral is located in the city's South End neighborhood, at 1400 Washington St.
The archdiocese closed in 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents started a petition to ask the archdiocese to not close the school, which got signed over 2,000 times, but the archdiocese maintained its decision. [12] St. Catherine of Siena School (Charlestown) - Opened in 1911 [13]
St. Joseph Catholic Church was a parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, serving the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The parish was established in 1845, and a church was built in the same year.
The archdiocese first received complaints about Reverend Robert Gale in 1968. During the early 1970s, while serving on the pastoral staff of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Boston, a complaint was received about him sexually abusing a boy. The archdiocese then transferred Gale to St. Joseph Parish in Quincy, Massachusetts.
In April 2002, following the Boston Globe ' s public exposure of the cover up by Cardinal Law (and his predecessor Cardinal Humberto Medeiros) of offending priests in the Boston Archdiocese, Law consulted with Pope John Paul II and other Vatican officials and said he was committed to staying on as archbishop and addressing the scandal: "It is ...
Archbishop William Henry O'Connell purchased the paper in 1908 and turned it into the official voice of Boston's archdiocese. He closely monitored its editorial policies and sought to promote its readership among local Catholic families. In 1979, The Pilot celebrated its 150th anniversary and featured special information about the newspaper's ...