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The Diocese of Harrisburg was established by Pope Pius IX on March 3, 1868. [4] St. Patrick's was named the pro-cathedral of the new diocese. Bishop John W. Shanahan proposed at a diocesan synod in 1902 that a permanent cathedral be built in the diocese.
The first Catholic mission was founded in Harrisburg in 1806. In 1808, Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Philadelphia, covering all of Pennsylvania. [5] South central Pennsylvania would remain part of this new diocese for the next 60 years. In Harrisburg, the first Catholic Church, St. Patricks, was established for an Irish congregation in ...
Cathedral of Saint Patrick (Roman Catholic) 40°15′49″N 76°53′11″W / 40.2637°N 76.8864°W / 40.2637; -76.8864 ( Cathedral of Saint Patrick (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania [ 11 ]
On November 21, 1989, Dattilo was appointed the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg by Pope John Paul II. [2] He received his episcopal consecration on January 26, 1990, from Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua, with Bishops William Keeler and Donald Wuerl serving as co-consecrators, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Harrisburg.
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The diocese was established on May 30, 1901, as the Diocese of Altoona. On October 9, 1957, its name was changed to the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. The diocese also sponsors Proclaim!, a weekly Catholic news show, and a weekly live mass from St. John Gualbert Cathedral in Johnstown.
Notre-Dame Cathedral, which is more than 800 years old, reopens this weekend in Paris. The event comes more than five years after a devastating fire. Watch live: Notre-Dame Cathedral reopening in ...
Timothy Christian Senior (born March 22, 1960) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania since 2023. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2023, as well as rector and later chancellor of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Pennsylvania.