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Diocese of Wilmington in red. This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington. The diocese covers the entire state of Delaware and the Eastern Shore region of Maryland. [1] The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral of St. Peter in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Diocese of Wilmington (Latin: Dioecesis Wilmingtoniensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory – or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the eastern United States. The diocese comprises the entire state of Delaware and the Eastern Shore Region of Maryland.
St. Joseph on the Brandywine, originally Saint Joseph's Church until St. Joseph's Church – Wilmington was built in 1947, is a parish of the Catholic Church in Greenville, Delaware, United States, in the Diocese of Wilmington. It is a historic parish church complex and national historic district located on Old Church Road. Since 2002 its old ...
In 1868, Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Wilmington. This action prompted the new diocese to prepare Saint Peter's for consecration as a cathedral.Starting in 1870, the diocese added frescoes, a marble baptistery, three altars, a chancel railing, a barrel-domed roof, and a bishop's cathedra to the church.
St. Joseph's was founded by the Josephites, who established community services for the Wilmington African-American community dating from the late-1880s.. It later changed hands, ending up with the Franciscans, who relinquished administration in Fall 2020 to the Diocese of Wilmington.
On October 31, 1858, the church was consecrated by Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann of Philadelphia. Later, the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington was formed March 3, 1868, and comprised what is known as the Delmarva Peninsula: the State of Delaware, nine eastern counties of Maryland, and two counties of Virginia east of Chesapeake Bay.
Located at the cemetery is a small cinder block building, which contains an altar, and stands at the site of the original log mission church built about 1790. It was the first Catholic church in Delaware out of which grew the present Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington. [2] The house was demolished in March 2010 following an arson.
St. Joseph's Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at 17 W. Cochran Street in Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware.It was built in 1883–84, and is a small rectangular frame building in the vernacular Gothic Revival style.