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444 St John St, Plum: Part of Holy Family Parish. St. John Capistran 1610 McMillan Rd., Upper St. Clair Township, Pennsylvania: Part of Resurrection Parish. St. John the Evangelist 54 S 14th St., South Side Flats, Pittsburgh Closed in 1992 (merged into Prince of Peace Parish); later demolished. Parish is now part of Mary, Queen of Peace Parish ...
Byzantine-Ruthenian Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh Directory. Pittsburgh: Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh. ISBN none. Kidney, Walter C. (1997). Pittsburgh's Landmark Architecture: The Historic Buildings of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. ISBN 0-916670-18-X.
John of Capistrano, OFM (Italian: San Giovanni da Capestrano, Hungarian: Kapisztrán János, Polish: Jan Kapistran, Croatian: Ivan Kapistran; 24 June 1386 – 23 October 1456) was a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the Italian town of Capestrano, Abruzzo.
They recommended that the Vatican erect a Diocese of Pittsburgh and nominated Michael O'Connor, vicar general of Western Pennsylvania and pastor of St. Paul's Church in Pittsburgh, to be appointed the first bishop. [8] The Vatican erected the Diocese of Pittsburgh on August 11, 1843, by taking its territory from the Diocese of Philadelphia. [9]
The current chancery office and residency is on 66 Riverview Avenue, Pittsburgh. Apostolic Exarchs. Basil Takach (1924–1948) Daniel Ivancho (1948–1954) Eparchs. Nicholas Thomas Elko (1955–1967) Archeparchs. Stephen John Kocisko (1967–1991) Thomas Victor Dolinay (1991–1993) Judson Michael Procyk (1994–2001) Basil Myron Schott, O.F.M ...
The first church in town, St. John the Evangelist, was dedicated the following year. The first resident pastor was the Reverend John Tuigg, who was assigned by Bishop Michael O'Connor of the Diocese of Pittsburgh in 1853. When the Diocese of Altoona was established in 1901, St. John's Church became the pro-cathedral. [4]
The Metropolis of Pittsburgh is a sui juris metropolitan see of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church that is located in the United States of America and Canada. The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church is one of 23 sui juris ('self governing') Eastern Catholic particular churches in the Catholic Church that is in full communion with the Holy See .
A parish of the Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh, the American branch of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church, St. John Chrysostom Church was established in 1910 by Rusyn immigrants from the Carpathian Mountains. Most came to work in Pittsburgh's steel industry.