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St. Brigid Church, 1981 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington Founded as a mission in 1848 for Irish immigrants, became a parish in 1886. Current church dedicated in 1957. Now part of Catholic Parishes of Lexington [164] Concord-Carlisle Catholic Collaborative St. Irene Church, 181 East St, Carlisle: Now part of Concord-Carlisle Collaborative [165]
Wakefield Bridge, Wakefield City Centre Church of England I: c. 1350 Forms part of the structure of Wakefield Bridge St Mary Magdalene's Church Outwood WF1 2DT Church of England 1858 [4] Part of the benefice of North Wakefield St Michael's Church Westgate End, Wakefield Church of England Serves the west end of Wakefield St Paul's Church St Paul ...
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Boston (Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Bostoniensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. The archdiocese is the fourth largest in the United States. [3]
The first Catholic church on Cape Cod was St. Peter's, constructed in Sandwich in 1830. Fall River received it first Catholic church in 1837 when St. John the Baptist was completed. [7] In 1869, the first Portuguese language parish in the country was started in Fall River. The Diocese of Providence was erected by Pope Pius IX on February 17 ...
The area was separated from Reading as South Reading in 1818, and renamed Wakefield in 1868. [2] The 25 acre district includes the buildings that line the common on Common Street and Main Street, which include the town hall, public library, YMCA, post office, and several churches. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
St. Mary's Catholic Church is a parish church of the Catholic Church in Winchester, Massachusetts, within the Archdiocese of Boston. It is noted for its historic church at 159 Washington Street, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, [ 1 ] reflecting its important role among the local Irish Catholic community. [ 2 ]
Saint Augustine Chapel and Cemetery is a historic church on Dorchester Street between West Sixth and Tudor Streets in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1818–19, it is the oldest Roman Catholic church building in Massachusetts; the cemetery, established 1818 is also the state's oldest Catholic cemetery.
It was established to cater to the growing Irish Catholic population in the Nonantum/Newton Corner area. The church was designed by Providence-based ecclesiastical architect James Murphy, and construction took two years (1873–75), hampered by funding difficulties and the death in a fall of its principal brickworker. Due to defects in the ...