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ST. COLMAN'S CHURCH. See ST. PATRICK'S PARISH.


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ST. EDWARD PARISH was established in 1871 by IRISH Catholics and became the second AFRICAN-AMERICAN parish in the Diocese of Cleveland in 1943. Irish Catholics residing in the Woodland Avenue area formed the Holy Family Parish in 1871 and welcomed Father Jacob Kuhn to lead the congregation.

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ST. ELIAS CHURCH was established in 1905 in Cleveland to serve Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian immigrants who were Catholics of the Melkite Rite, one of the eastern rites of Catholicism. It was the first Melkite parish outside of New York and the third in America. In 1901 a Basilian Salvatorian priest, Fr. Basil Marsha, came to Cleveland, and the first liturgy for the immigrants was held at St. Joseph's Church on E.

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ST. ELIZABETH CATHOLIC CHURCH of Cleveland celebrated its first mass on 11 Dec. 1892, the first U.S. church established for Hungarian Roman Catholics. HUNGARIANS came in great numbers to the Cleveland area during the late 1880s and early 1890s. At first they worshipped at ST.

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ST. GEORGE ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, 2587 W. 14th St., was established by the United Syrian Orthodox Society, formed 10 March 1911 with the name of St. Nicholas Syrian Orthodox Christian Society, to organize a church for the Syrian Orthodox Christian in Cleveland.

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ST. GEORGE'S LITHUANIAN CHURCH, officially established in 1901, was the first church for Roman Catholic LITHUANIANS in the Diocese of Cleveland. Lithuanian Catholics immigrated to the area beginning in the 1880s and affiliated with Polish churches before 1901. Fr. Joseph Maszotas, a Lithuanian seminarian ordained by Bp.

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ST. HELENA ROMANIAN BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH, established on 19 Nov. 1905, is one of 16 Romanian Byzantine Rite (Uniate) parishes in the U.S. The parish was founded through the efforts of Fr. Epaminonda Lucaciu, the first Romanian priest sent to the U.S. by the bishop of Transylvania. He served St. Helena's until 1907. The congregation met at ST.

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ST. HENRY PARISH was established with the permission of Bishop EDWARD F. HOBAN in the Lee-Miles neighborhood of Cleveland in 1946. The Bishop appointed Father John A. Hreha to lead the newly established parish.

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ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA MONASTERY AND HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY (St. Herman's House of Hospitality), located at 4410 Franklin Blvd. in OHIO CITY, was established to extend Christian charity to jobless and homeless men, and all others who may need it, without regard to race or creed.

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ST. IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL was founded as a result of an invitation from Bp. RICHARD GILMOUR to the Jesuits in Buffalo, NY, to provide advanced schooling for Cleveland's Catholic young men.

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ST. JAMES AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) CHURCH evolved from a small prayer meeting in 1894 to become one of the city's leading AFRICAN-AMERICAN churches. After attending a revival at ST.

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ST. JAMES CHURCH, located at 1681 E. 55th St. (at Whittier Ave.) since 1890, was founded in 1857 as a mission of Trinity Episcopal Church (see TRINITY CATHEDRAL). The earliest services were held in a school at St. Clair and E. 40th streets. The first church was built 1864-66 at the corner of Superior and E. 26th in what was a neighborhood of English settlement. Rev.

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ST. JOHN BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH was the first Byzantine (or Greek) Catholic parish established in Cleveland. It was founded in 1892 by a group of Byzantine Catholic families with the approval of the Roman Catholic bishop. The first pastor was Rev. John Csurgovich, who served for about 4 years. The parish was originally known as St. John the Baptist's Church.

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ST. JOHN CANTIUS CHURCH. See ST. PATRICK'S PARISH.


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ST. JOHN CATHEDRAL was established by the first bishop of Cleveland, AMADEUS RAPPE, shortly after his appointment in 1847, to provide a more centrally located church for the city's Catholics than ST. MARY'S ON THE FLATS. Property on Erie St. (E. 9th) and Superior that had been purchased in 1845 by Fr.

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ST. JOHN COLLEGE began as Sisters' College in 1928 to train teachers to staff the elementary schools of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, and later expanded its mission to preparing nurses for Catholic hospitals. It was one of the few diocesan colleges in the U.S. Within 4 years of its opening in the old Cathedral School Bldg.

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ST. JOHN HOSPITAL (St. John of God Hospital), located at 7911 Detroit Ave., provided medical services on Cleveland's west side from 1890-1990. It was opened by the Sisters of St. Francis, of Lafayette, IN, on land purchased by Bp. RICHARD GILMOUR with a gift from W. J. Gordon. In 1916 Bp.

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The parish of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST BYZANTINE RITE CATHEDRAL was established in 1898. It is considered the mother church of the Ruthenian Byzantine Rite Catholic church in Ohio. St. John's earliest services were held at St. Joseph's chapel at E. 23rd and Woodland Ave. The first pastor was Rev. Ivan Matyaczko (sometimes listed as F. Matyack), who was succeeded ca. 1900 by Rev. Peter Keselak.

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ST. JOHN WEST SHORE HOSPITAL, opened on 1 March 1981 as St. John and West Shore Hospital and is located at 29000 Center Ridge Rd. in WESTLAKE. The hospital served as the core facility of the Westlake Health Campus. The 4-story facility was originally co-owned by ST.

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ST. JOHN'S AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) CHURCH was the first AFRICAN-AMERICAN church, and the only permanent one, to be established in Cleveland during the antebellum period.

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ST. JOHN'S BECKWITH MEMORIAL CHURCH was a Protestant mission to immigrant ITALIANS founded in 1890 in LITTLE ITALY. In the summer of 1888, Louise Woodward and Florence Cozad, members of the EUCLID AVE.

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ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, the oldest church edifice standing in the Cleveland area, claims 1816 as its founding date, at the same meeting at the home of Phineas Shepherd in BROOKLYN as TRINITY Parish.

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ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (1878-1986), at 5830 Cable Ave., at one time was one of the largest congregations in the Missouri Synod. It was organized on 1 Sept. 1878 as St. John's German Evangelical Church, a daughter parish of ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH. Approximately 15 families, many from the Zion church, formed the congregation. Rev.

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ST. JOHN, SAMUEL (29 Mar. 1813-9 Sept. 1876), science professor, proponent of natural history, and newspaper publisher during his short time in the Cleveland area in the mid-1800s, was born in New Canaan, Conn., son of Samuel and Hannah Benedict Richards St. John.

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The ST. JOSEPH HOME FOR THE AGED, opened 6 Dec. 1943, cared for ambulatory elderly residents from Jan. 1944 until it closed in Jan. 1966. The Franciscan Sisters of the Blessed Kunegunda, newly arrived in Cleveland from Chicago, founded the home, using the former ST. JOSEPH'S ORPHANAGE building at 6431 Woodland Ave.

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ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL, the first general public hospital in Cleveland, was established in 1852 in a 2-story frame house at Willett and Monroe streets in OHIO CITY. The SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE were invited by Bp.

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ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, a landmark church that stood for over a century on Woodland at E. 23rd St., began as ST. BERNARD'S parish. A frame church for this GERMAN parish, at Woodland and E. 23rd streets, was begun in 1862 and dedicated to St. Joseph.

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ST. JOSEPH'S ORPHANAGE FOR GIRLS, est. in 1863 and incorporated in 1889, housed Catholic orphans until 1947, when its residents were transferred to PARMADALE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE. St. Joseph's organized officially as a "country location," 6431 Woodland, near E. 60th St., for 12 younger girls from ST.

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ST. LADISLAS CHURCH, the first church for Slovak Catholics in Cleveland, dates from 1885 when Fr. STEPHAN FURDEK began holding services at St. Joseph's Church on Woodland Ave. SLOVAKS living in the area bounded by Berg, Commercial, and Hill streets attended. In 1889 Fr. Furdek bought property on Corwin St. and Holton Ave.

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ST. MALACHI CHURCH was organized in 1865 by Bp. AMADEUS RAPPE out of the large ST. PATRICK'S PARISH, to place an IRISH parish closer to residential sections on Cleveland's near west side. Fr. James Molony was the first pastor (1865-1903).

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ST. MARON congregation dates from 1914, when approx. 10 immigrant families from Syria and Lebanon formed the St. John Maron Society. They were Catholics of the Maronite Rite who had worshipped in Latin Rite churches but wished to preserve their religious heritage. The St. John Maron Society raised the necessary funds and bought a house at 2214 E. 21st St. for use as a church in 1915. Bp.

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ST. MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL, 6202 St. Clair Ave.,  opened with 105 students in 2004 in the former St. Vitus Elementary School.  The high school is named for the patron saint of mixed-race and working people,  born in Peru in 1679 and canonized in 1962.

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ST. MARTIN OF TOURS PARISH was one of Cleveland's nonterritorial ethnic Catholic parishes, serving SLOVAKS on the city's east side. St. Martin was established in 1893 by Bp. IGNATIUS F. HORSTMANN to permit a large number of members of ST. LADISLAS parish (E. 92nd St.

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ST. MARY SEMINARY,the Diocese of Cleveland's graduate school of theology, opened in 1848, when Bishop AMADEUS RAPPE remodeled a stable at Bond (E. 6th) St. and St. Clair for the education of students for the diocesan priesthood.

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ST. MARY'S ON-THE-FLATS, the colloquial name of the parish of Our Lady of the Lakes, was the first Catholic church in Cleveland, organized in 1826 by IRISH Catholic immigrants. Before it closed in 1886, it spawned many west-side parishes and ST. JOHN CATHEDRAL. Masses were first said in Cleveland by visiting priests, including the Very Rev.

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ST. MARY'S ORPHAN ASYLUM FOR FEMALES admitted its first child on Christmas Day, 1851, and sheltered homeless girls for 43 years. Bp. AMADEUS RAPPE founded the home, staffed by the Daughters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, from France. Originally located on St. Clair at E. 6th, in 1853 the home moved its 26 orphans to Harmon (E. 20th) St.

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ST. MARY'S ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH was established on 15 Aug. 1904 by 101 ROMANIANS in Cleveland. The church's first structure, at 6201-05 Detroit Ave., cost $10,000 and was dedicated in Aug. 1905. It was struck by fire twice, in June 1918 and Dec. 1932. In Jan.

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ST. MICHAEL CHURCH at Scranton and Clark was built from 1889-1892 and was considered the finest church in Cleveland for many years. The congregation was founded as a mission of St. Mary's Church in 1881 to serve the increasing number of GERMAN immigrants in the area. Fr. JOSEPH M. KOUDELKA was the founding pastor.

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ST. MICHAEL HOSPITAL, the second CATHOLIC hospital in Cleveland, was founded in 1884 as St. Alexis. Sisters M. Leonarda and M. Alexia of the Order of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration established St. Alexis to serve workers and manufacturing concerns in NEWBURGH and the Cuyahoga Industrial Valley.

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The congregation of ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH on Rocky River Dr. in Cleveland was organized in 1848 (when the area was known as Rockport), one year after the Diocese of Cleveland was established. Masses were said in homes until a frame church was built in 1854. Cathedral priests ministered in the early years, including Bp. AMADEUS RAPPE.

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ST. PATRICK'S PARISH, called the mother church of Cleveland's west side, was founded in 1853, 6 years after the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland was established. One of the oldest parishes in the diocese, it originally served a largely IRISH population. A brick church on two lots on Whitman Ave. was dedicated on Christmas 1853 and consecrated in 1857.

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ST. PAUL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) CHURCH is the oldest AFRICAN-AMERICAN congregation on Cleveland's West Side. St. Paul originated from informal meetings held by adherents of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) denomination at the home of the Williams family on Peerlor Avenue in 1919 under the leadership of Rev. T. J. Evans.

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ST. PAUL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL (AME) ZION CHURCH was the first church of the AME Zion denomination established in Cleveland in 1912. As large numbers of AFRICAN-AMERICAN migrants made their way to Cleveland from the South in the early years of the twentieth century, they sought to institutionalize their religious life. Among them were members of the AME Zion church.

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ST. PAUL BAPTIST CHURCH. See MOUNT HERMON BAPTIST CHURCH.


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ST. PAUL CROATIAN CHURCH is Cleveland's only Roman Catholic parish serving Latin Rite CROATIANS. The city's first Croatians attended ST. VITUS CHURCH but desired a priest conversant in Croatian. On 21 July 1901 the growing Croatian community purchased a site on E. 40th just south of St. Clair Ave. Fr.

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ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, organized downtown on 26 Oct. 1846, later followed its parishioners' migration to the SUBURBS. The parish organized at the American House Hotel, with 45 members and Gideon B. Perry as the first rector. Services were held in rented rooms until a frame church was built on the southeast corner of Euclid and Sheriff (E. 4th) streets in 1848.

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ST. PETER CHURCH, the first GERMAN congregation formed in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, maintained the diocese's oldest church building in continuous use (1995), at 1533 E. 17th St. at Superior Ave. The parish originated in 1853, when Fr. John H. Luhr began to minister to the Germans who met at ST. MARY'S ON-THE-FLATS.

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ST. ROCCO PARISH, Cleveland's first west side ITALIAN parish, officially organized in 1922, evolving out of celebrations of St. Rocco's Day. Featuring processions, pageants, and sometimes a mass, the celebrations engendered the desire for an Italian church on the west side. An "independent" chapel (without clergy or recognition of the Roman Catholic church) was built on Trent Ave.

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The ST. SAVA SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CONTROVERSY (1963-75) over control of church property and control by a hierarchical form of church government split Cleveland's SERBIAN community.

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ST. STANISLAUS CHURCH is the mother parish for Polish Roman Catholics in Cleveland, established in 1873 to serve the growing number of POLES. It evolved into one of the city's largest churches, in what was for a time Cleveland's major Polish settlement, Warszawa. The parish had no permanent structure until 1881, meeting in either ST.

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