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The parish was established in 1847 as the church of St. Benedict after years of local Catholics fighting Protestant opposition to establish a parish. [3] The congregation purchased a former Baptist church which served as its first home. For the first five years, it had no pastor when the Rev. Michael P. Gallagher was assigned to serve the parish.
He added a wing to Farren Memorial Hospital in Montague, Massachusetts, and built Mont Marie, the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield. [13] Weldon erected 10 new parishes, and constructed 11 new churches and several parish centers. [ 13 ]
The St. John's Congregational Church and Parsonage-Parish for Working Girls are a pair of historic religious buildings at 69 Hancock and 643 Union Streets in Springfield, Massachusetts. The church, built in 1911 for an African-American congregation founded in 1889, is a well-preserved example of English and Gothic Revival architecture.
St. John's Congregational Church & Parsonage-Parish for Working Girls: St. John's Congregational Church & Parsonage-Parish for Working Girls: June 28, 2016 : 69 Hancock St. Springfield: 73: St. Joseph's Church: St. Joseph's Church: February 24, 1983
In 1825, Reverend John Timon celebrated the first mass in Cape Girardeau and in 1833 dedicated the first church there. [6] The oldest parish in Springfield, Immaculate Conception, was established in 1868. [7] In Joplin, the first Catholic church was started in 1878. [8] Our Lady of the Lake, the only Catholic church in Branson, was dedicated in ...
The first Roman Catholic parish in western Massachusetts was established in 1860, at St. Michael's in Springfield. The Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts was organized in 1870 to better serve the growing Catholic population in the Pioneer Valley. The French Catholics of St. Michael's (predominantly French Canadian immigrants) pushed for ...
The church is under the circumscription of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts and serves St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr's Parish. The church was completed in 1908 to the designs of Robert J. Reiley and Gustave E. Steinback of the firm Reiley and Steinback. The basilica was decreed on June 25, 1991. [1]
Founded 1917. It is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts. The Diocese of Springfield announced that the parish would close after Mass on January 28, 2018, owing to declining attendance and maintenance issues. Immaculate Conception Parish will serve as the receiving ...