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Weldon erected 10 new parishes, and constructed 11 new churches and several parish centers. [13] He established a center for the Hispanic apostolate in Springfield, and a diocesan newspaper in 1954. [13] Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Maguire of Boston was named coadjutor bishop in 1976 by Pope Paul VI to assist Weldon.
St. Michael's Cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts, United States, established in 1847. In 1974, the church and rectory were included as contributing properties in the Quadrangle–Mattoon Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
A parish house was added to the east side of the church in the 1940s. Built of brick, it was faced with limestone that was quarried in Longmeadow at about the same time as that of the church itself. It was recovered from the First Baptist Church prior to its demolition. [3] The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
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.
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During Springfield's resurgence in the new millennium, prominent architects – like Moshe Safdie, who built the $57 million, 2008 U.S. Federal Court Building; Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, who built the $47 million, 2004 Basketball Hall of Fame; and TRO Jung Brannen, who are building the $110 million, 2012 adaptive reuse of Springfield's ...
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 ...
Christ Church Cathedral in the early 20th century. Christ Church began on May 13, 1817, in the chapel of the Springfield Armory under the guidance of the armory's superintendent Colonel Roswell Lee. [3] A fire at the main armory buildings on March 2, 1824, forced the church out, as the space was needed by the armory for other purposes.