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Holy Family Church is situated in Franklinton, the oldest neighborhood in Columbus. The Catholic population of the early 1850s consisted of only a few families, augmented for a short time by a small number of laborers who were constructing the National Road. Before 1833 Mass was celebrated occasionally in the homes of the few Catholic families.
The Church of the Holy Family stands in central Cahokia Heights, at the southeast corner of East 1st and Church Streets. The church campus includes three buildings: the 1799 church, a modern 20th-century sanctuary, and a parish house. The 1799 church is a log structure, measuring about 32 by 74 feet (9.8 m × 22.6 m).
Church of the Holy Family was founded in 1857 by Fr. Arnold Damen, SJ, at the behest of Bishop Anthony O'Regan.Damen wanted to build a large complex with multiple buildings to serve the needs of the local Catholic immigrants, but many were concerned about raising the funds for a grand church in the wake of the Panic of 1857.
Father Joseph Shea, a native of Van Nuys, was named administrator of Holy Family in 1995 and pastor in 1996. During the year of 2007, the 100th birthday of Holy Family, Fr. Shea worked hard in rebuilding the church to the way it was 80 years ago. In 2008, Fr. Shea was succeeded by Father Jim Bevacqua. Holy Family parish has 4,500 registered ...
Holy Family Catholic Church, located in Orange, California, United States, is a parish church in the Diocese of Orange. It served as the cathedral of that diocese, from the diocese's establishment in 1976, until Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California , the former Crystal Cathedral, was dedicated on July 17, 2019.
The first mass celebrated in the new building was a midnight Christmas mass, as prior to that, masses were being held in the basement of the building under construction. The Holy Family School was opened in 1921 for first and second grade students in the basement of the church, with pews used to form a makeshift classroom.
It is named after the Holy Family of Jesus and is a part of the San Pedro Pastoral Region in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The church also contains a school, Our Lady of Fatima (OLF), named after one of Mary, mother of Jesus' titles. [1] As of 2014, it has over 15,000 active parish members [3] and 80% of the mass attendees are Filipino as of ...
Holy Family Catholic Church is a parish of the Diocese of Davenport. The parish is the result of a merger between Saints Mary and Joseph Parish and Sacred Heart Parish in the city of Fort Madison, Iowa, United States. It maintains both of the former parish church buildings as worship sites.