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Bishop (s) Peter Anthony Libasci. Pastor (s) Very Rev. Fr. Patrick N. Gilbert, V.F. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary is a Catholic church in Rochester, New Hampshire, United States. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester. The church is located at 189 North Main Street in Rochester.
After serving as rector of St. Joseph's Cathedral from 1987 to 1995, the diocese named Kettler as pastor of St. Lambert Parish from 1995 to 2000, and of Christ the King Parish from 2000 to 2002, all in Sioux Falls. Kettler also served on the Sioux Falls Diocesan Finance Council and the Stewardship Committee. He was a board member for Catholic ...
Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Boston on April 8, 1808, including New Hampshire in its jurisdiction. [8] The first Catholic church in New Hampshire, St. Mary's, was built in 1823 in Claremont by a father and son, both Anglican priests, who had converted to Catholicism. The first parish in New Hampshire was St. Aloyisius in Dover, erected ...
In 1863, the first Catholic church in Rochester, St. John the Evangelist, was opened. [6] In 1877, Coadjutor Bishop John Ireland of Saint Paul purchased over 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) of land in the Winona area. Ireland then recruited poor Catholic Irish and German farmers to buy the land and settle there, giving them favorable repayment terms. [3]
In 1880, Marty persuaded Benedictine sisters from Missouri to assist him in ministering at Fort Yates, a center of the Yankton Lakota people [7] The first Catholic church in Sioux Falls, St. Michael's, was dedicated in 1881. It later became the first cathedral of the Diocese of Sioux Falls.
The Diocese of Rochester grew as more Catholic immigrants moved to Rochester, peaking in the 1960s. Since then, the Catholic population has stabilized while the number of priests and religious sisters has fallen. [44] 1909 – 121,000 Catholics in 93 parishes, 36 missions and 53 parish schools with 18,000 pupils.
June 5, 1974. The Cathedral of Saint Joseph is a Catholic cathedral and parish church located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of Sioux Falls. [2] Since 1974 the cathedral has been a contributing property in the Cathedral Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
The St. Anthony of Padua Church is a historic Catholic church in Hoven, South Dakota, within the Diocese of Sioux Falls. Nicknamed "the Cathedral of the Prairie" (though it has never technically been a cathedral), [2] it is noted for its ornate Romanesque and Gothic Revival architecture, the cost and scale of which are unusual for a small rural ...