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St. James Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in the West End neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded as a parish of the Diocese of Pittsburgh in 1853, the current Brick Gothic church was built in 1884, and served as a parish church for 120 years until its closure in 2004.
St. James at Sag Bridge Catholic Church continues today in its historic role as the center of the Sag Bridge community. It is the only country parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 1984, and is a contributing property of the Illinois and Michigan Canal ...
St. James is a Roman Catholic church in Stratford, Connecticut, part of the Diocese of Bridgeport. History. The Gothic Revival church was designed by J. Gerald ...
The first church was built in 1822-1823 and dedicated to the patronage of St. James by Bishop John Connolly on August 28, 1823. [3] It became the cathedral of Brooklyn when the diocese was established in 1853.
The name of the parish was changed to St Agatha-St James in 1976, following a merger with the nearby St. Agatha's Church (at 38th and Spring Garden Streets in Powelton Village). [1] The old St Agatha's Church had suffered multiple fires, which coupled with the decline in the parish population, precipitated the decision to merge the two parishes.
The old church was demolished April 1968 and the new church was dedicated June 23, 1968. The new St. James was built of Pennsylvania limestone, in the Neo-Romanesque style. The church can seat 1,200 people, nearly twice that of the second parish church. The second parish church, or the "Old Gray Church" was in disrepair.
The Proto-Cathedral of St. James the Greater (formerly St. James Catholic Church) is a church building and parish of the Catholic Church located in Vancouver, Washington, United States. The parish is part of the Archdiocese of Seattle and traces its roots to the initial arrival of missionary priests in the Oregon Country in the 1830s; its first ...
St. James Church, located at 1681 E. 55th St., Cleveland, Ohio, was founded in 1857 as a mission of Trinity Episcopal Church (now Trinity Cathedral).The first church was built in 1864-66 in an English settlement neighborhood at Superior Ave. and Alabama (now W. 4th).