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St. Bartholomew the Apostle Catholic Church (City of Katy) - The church has regular worship services in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. [94] St. Cecilia Church (Hedwig Village, [95] Houston postal address) - Previously St. Theresa church served the Memorial Villages area. St. Cecilia was established by Bishop Nold on July 1, 1956. [96]
Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham (Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter-Catholic Church) 29°47′45″N 95°29′00″W / 29.795849°N 95.483340°W / 29.795849; -95.483340 ( Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham (Houston
St. John's Church (Brownwood, Texas) Saint John's Methodist Church; St. Joseph's Church (Galveston, Texas) St. Mark's Episcopal Church (San Antonio, Texas) St. Mary Cathedral Basilica (Galveston, Texas) St. Mary of the Assumption Church (Fort Worth) Saint Mary's Catholic Church (Victoria, Texas) St. Mary's Church of the Assumption (Praha, Texas ...
The Diocese of Beaumont (Latin: Dioecesis Bellomontensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory. or diocese. of the Catholic Church covering nine counties in the state of Texas in the United States. It is a suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. St.
After the American Civil War ended in 1865, a new Catholic mission was founded in 1867 at Ben Ficklin, Texas, to serve US Army troops stationed at the new Fort Concho. In Abilene , a Catholic mission was established in the 1880s; it became Sacred Heart Church in 1891. [ 6 ]
The first Catholic mission in Texas, then part of the Spanish Empire, was San Francisco de los Tejas. It was founded by Franciscan Father Damián Massanet in 1690 in the Weches area. The priests left the mission after three years, then established a second mission, Nuestro Padre San Francisco de los Tejas . near present-day Alto in 1716.
The first Catholic priests in the region came from Kansas and New Mexico during the 1870s, serving the small Catholic population in periodic visits. The first Catholic church in the Texas Panhandle was St. Mary's, dedicated in Clarendon in 1892, to serve Irish and German railroad workers. [3]
The Archdiocese of San Antonio (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Antonii) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States. It encompasses 27,841 square miles (72,110 km 2) in the U.S. state of Texas. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio had a self-reported 2018 population of 796,954, up from 728,001 in 2014. [4]