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St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church, also known as St. Nicholas Greek Catholic Church, is a historic Catholic Church church at 504 S. Liberty Street in Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1912 and 1918, and is a 30 feet by 60 feet yellow brick building in the Byzantine Revival style.
The first Catholic parish in Fayette County, it is the oldest continuously operating parish in Western Pennsylvania. It is also believed to have been the spot on which the first religious service of any kind offered west of the Allegheny Mountains was held.
Pages in category "Churches in Fayette County, Pennsylvania" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Diocese of Greensburg (Latin: Dioecesis Greensburgensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Western Pennsylvania in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The mother church of the Diocese of Greensburg is Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Greensburg. The diocese was ...
There are more than 200 churches in the archdiocese, divided for administrative purposes into four episcopal regions, each headed by an auxiliary bishop, and 12 deaneries. The Archbishop of Philadelphia has general oversight of the whole archdiocese. [2] The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral-Basilica of Ss.
After the opening of the new church building in 1912, the previous wooden building was converted into a parochial school. [2] The school, which eventually moved into a larger building behind the current church, operated until the end of the 2010–2011 school year when it was merged with Saint John the Evangelist Regional Catholic School, also in Uniontown.
St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church in Shamokin, was the first building of its kind in the world to be illuminated by electric light. McDonnald, Alexander Hopkins (1951). The Encyclopedia Americana. Americana Corporation. St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church, erected in 1873, is said to have been the first church in the world lighted by electricity.
Pages in category "Churches in Fayette County, Texas" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... St. John the Baptist Catholic Church ...