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.
ST. JOHN CANTIUS CHURCH. See ST. PATRICK'S PARISH.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ST. PAUL BAPTIST CHURCH. See MOUNT HERMON BAPTIST CHURCH.
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.
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.