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This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. [1] 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 Metropolitan Archdiocese of Philadelphia (Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Philadelphiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in southeastern Pennsylvania in the United States.
Saint Anne Church (Philadelphia) St. Augustine Church (Philadelphia) St. Donato Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia) St. John Cantius Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia; St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Manayunk; St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) St Nicholas of Tolentine, Philadelphia; St. Agatha ...
St. Donato Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia) St. Hubert Catholic High School for Girls; Saint Katharine Drexel Mission Center and Shrine; St. Laurentius Parish, Philadelphia; Sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia; St. Basil the Great, Kimberton
Church Location Notes Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement 1538–1542 East Montgomery Avenue HABS PA-6789: Redeemer Lutheran Church: 3200 Ryan Avenue St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Mt. Airy) 6671 Germantown Avenue Closed September 2016 St. Michael's Lutheran Church - Kensington 2139 East Cumberland Street, Kensington HABS ...
The first Catholic church in Philadelphia was Saint Joseph's, which was built in 1733. As the Catholic Church grew, a new church called Saint Mary's was built in 1763; it became Philadelphia's first cathedral in 1810. As the Catholic Church continued to grow, Saint John the Evangelist was made the cathedral in 1838 when a larger church was needed.
Leadership within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia envisioned a continued comprehensive education for secondary students. The first free Catholic high school in the United States was the "Roman Catholic High School of Philadelphia", founded for the education of boys in 1890. (It is often referred to as "Roman Catholic", occasionally as "Catholic ...
St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1890, is a Catholic church at 4625 Springfield Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Its cornerstone laid in 1907, [1] the Guastavino tiled dome of the de Sales parish has been an icon in its neighborhood.