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The current church was elevated to a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1985. The oldest Catholic parish church in the greater Phoenix area, St. Mary's was the only parish in Phoenix until 1924 and is home to Arizona's largest stained glass windows collection and a 26-rank pipe organ built by the Schantz Organ Company.
The first Catholic church in Phoenix, the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was dedicated in 1881. It would remain the only parish in the city until 1924. [ 9 ] Also in 1881, the first Catholic church was constructed in Tempe - it would be replaced in 1903 by Old St. Mary's Church . [ 10 ]
The church, dedicated to Mary Magdalene, is part of the Convent of St. Mary Magdalene, a sisterhood established in 1936 by an English convert, and since the 1920s has been under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), an independent ecclesiastical entity until 2007 and part of the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox ...
St. Mary's church was founded by Episcopalians seeking to establish an Anglo-Catholic community in the Diocese of Arizona. The first Mass was celebrated on the Feast of Christ the King, October 28, 1956, in a Phoenix storefront. Several supply priests served the growing mission parish until the first vicar, the Reverend Rodney Cobb, arrived in ...
St. Mary's Church, St. Mary the Virgin's Church, St. Mary Church, Saint Mary Church, or other variations on the name, is a commonly used name for specific churches of various Christian denominations. Notable uses of the term may refer to:
Sacred Heart Church (Tombstone, Arizona) Saint Anthony's Church (Casa Grande, Arizona) Saint Mary's Catholic Church (Kingman, Arizona) Old St. Mary's Church (Tempe, Arizona) St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (Bisbee, Arizona) Santa Ana del Chiquiburitac Mission Site; Santa Cruz Catholic Church; Santa Rita Hall
Old St. Mary's Church – formerly Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, and also known as "The Old Church: – at 230 East University Avenue in Tempe, Arizona, is a historic church at the built in 1903 and designed in the Romanesque Revival style by Father Severin Westhoff.
St. Mary & St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Omaha (formerly located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the Church has recently moved its services to a new building constructed in Omaha to be closer to its members and abide more fully with its archdiocesan designation as the Coptic Orthodox Church in Omaha)