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First Vietnamese parish in the United States. Parish also operates Our Lady of La Vang mission church in Chantilly. Our Lady of Lourdes 830 23rd St, S, Arlington Founded in 1946, church dedicated in 1964. The parish includes the Pentagon. [3] [4] Our Lady, Queen of Peace 2700 19th St, S, Arlington Founded in 1945 as an African-American parish ...
Diocesan offices, Arlington, Virginia 2013 Basilica of St. Mary, Alexandria, Virginia (2019) The Diocese of Arlington (Latin: Dioecesis Arlingtonensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Northern Virginia in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The Cathedral of St ...
It was elevated to a cathedral when the northern counties of Virginia split from the Diocese of Richmond to form the Diocese of Arlington and the first bishop was installed on August 13, 1974. [3] The parish currently consists of 1,400 members. [4] In 1944, the parish established St. Thomas More Cathedral School. [5]
The pastor of any particular church other than an ordinariate must be episcopally ordained, but his title conforms to that of his jurisdiction: the pastor of an archdiocese is an archbishop, the pastor of a diocese is a bishop, the pastor of an archeparchy is an archeparch, the pastor of an eparchy is an eparch, and the pastor of an exarchate is an exarch.
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington (7 P) Pages in category "Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Saint Joseph Catholic Church is a predominantly Black Catholic church located at 711 N. Columbus St in historic Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.It was founded in 1916 to provide African-American parishioners of the local St. Mary's Roman Catholic Parish with their own church, freed from the customary restrictions that segregation imposed on them.
As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies and missions sui juris ...
The Basilica of Saint Mary is the oldest Catholic parish in Virginia. [1] [2] It was founded in 1795 by the Francis Neale, then the president of Georgetown University (then known as Georgetown College). [1] On December 6, 2017, Pope Francis designated the parish church as a minor basilica.