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In March 2019, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey sued the diocese, alleging violations of West Virginia consumer protection laws. [24] Morrisey said that the diocese advertised itself as a safe place for children while "knowingly employed pedophiles and failed to conduct adequate background checks" on workers in Catholic schools ...
The Cathedral of Saint Joseph is home to Wheeling's oldest Catholic parish, dating to 1822 and Mother Church to the city's other parishes. It has been the liturgical heart of the Diocese of Wheeling (originally) since the diocese's erection by Pope Pius IX in 1850 and is an architectural and artistic treasure in both the city and state.
The 1831 church was dedicated in 1833, to some extent resembling reduced St. Mary's Seminary Chapel in Baltimore, Maryland as an early Gothic Revival church. The 1896 remodeling by architects Thomas J. Collins and Son was extensive in scope, completely changing the church into a stone-clad Victorian Gothic structure, resembling the architects' St. Francis Roman Catholic Church in Staunton ...
St. Francis Xavier Church is a historic church at 532 Market Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia. This church was built in 1869 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] St. Francis Xavier is one of the four original churches of the Diocese of Wheeling. [2] St. Xavier is also the oldest church building in Parkersburg.
St. James Roman Catholic Church (Manhattan) St. James Church (Queens, New York) St. James Chapel (Stony Brook, New York) St. James Church (Goose Creek, South Carolina) St. James Church (Santee, South Carolina) St. James Episcopal Church (Midvale, Utah) St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; St. James Church (Accomac ...
Bishop Donahue Memorial High School was a private, Roman Catholic high school in McMechen, West Virginia.It was part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.It was named after Bishop Patrick James Donahue (1849–1922), who served as the third Bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling from 1894 until his death in 1922.
John Joseph Swint (December 15, 1879 – November 23, 1962) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling in West Virginia from December 1922 until his death in 1962. He was auxiliary bishop of the same diocese from May to December 1922.
The Feast of Saint James, also known as Saint James' Day, is a commemoration of the apostle James the Great celebrated on July 25 of the liturgical calendars of the Catholic Church and the Church of England. [1] The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar commemorates James on April 30. [2]