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On June 17, 1968, Pope Paul VI erected the Diocese of St. Petersburg with territory taken from St. Augustine and the Diocese of Miami. The new diocese included most of the Florida Gulf Coast. He appointed Auxiliary Bishop Charles B. McLaughlin of the Diocese of Raleigh as the first bishop of St. Petersburg.
Parkes decided to become a priest after attending morning masses and prayers. He studied for the priesthood at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida. In 1990, Parkes entered the Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he received a Bachelor of Theology degree and a ...
His older brother, Gregory Parkes, is the bishop of the Diocese of St. Petersburg in Florida. Stephen Parkes attended Massapequa High School in Massapequa, New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration/Marketing degree from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, in 1987, then worked in banking and the retail ...
It is the seat of the Diocese of St. Petersburg. St. Jude Parish was founded in 1950. [3] The first church building, now Our Lady's Chapel, was completed the following year. As the parish grew larger a combination school and church building was completed in 1954.
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
Mar. 5—The owners of a right-wing Catholic website have agreed to pay $500,000 to a Manchester priest for several articles lawyers say besmirched his reputation. In the suit, filed in U.S ...
Robert Nugent Lynch (born May 27, 1941) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as bishop of the Diocese of St. Petersburg in Florida from 1996 to 2016. Biography [ edit ]
The lawsuit names seven different priests and clergy, only one of whom appears on the diocese's published list of clergy with allegations of abuse, which was last updated September 2023.