Category: Religion

CATHEDRAL LATIN SCHOOL, a Catholic college preparatory school for boys, was founded by Bp. JOHN P. FARRELLY in 1916 at Euclid Ave. and East Blvd., with its administration building at 11105 Euclid, later Hitchcock Hall of CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV. (CWRU).

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS. See PAROCHIAL EDUCATION.


The CATHOLIC UNIVERSE BULLETIN, the official organ of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, first appeared on 4 July 1874 as the Catholic Universe. Established by Bp. RICHARD GILMOUR, it began with a subscription list purchased from the Celtic Index, a failing clerical weekly from the Youngstown area. It was first edited by Rev. Thos. P.

CATHOLIC WAR VETERANS. See JOINT VETERANS COMMITTEE.


CATHOLICS, ROMAN. Roman Catholicism in Cleveland followed a pattern common to other industrial midwestern cities. The Catholic population grew dramatically in the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially as a result of European immigration, then leveled off and declined after World War II.

The CENTER FOR PASTORAL LEADERSHIP of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland was established in 1991. Situated on Euclid Ave. in Wickliffe, OH, the center is home to 4 of the diocese's ministerial formation programs. The center is located on property that once was the country estate of Cleveland steel magnate, Price McKinney.

CHILD CARE. Cleveland’s children in need have been cared for by both the private and the public sectors.

CHRISTIAN MISSION. See SALVATION ARMY.


CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS were first organized in Cleveland by General Erastus N. Bates in 1877. Bates secured 2 rooms in a downtown building and formed a ministry based on the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church in Boston (1866). Christian Science interprets the Scriptures as maintaining that disease, sin, death, etc., are caused by mental error and have no real existence.

The CHURCH OF THE COVENANT, the Presbyterian Church, located at 11205 EUCLID AVE. in UNIV. CIRCLE, resulted in 1920 from mergers of 3 churches. The Euclid St. (United) Presbyterian Church, originally located at Euclid and E. 14th St., organized in 1853. Known as the Euclid Ave.

CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY, REFORMED EPISCOPAL. See EMMANUEL CHURCH (EPISCOPAL).


CHURCH OF THE MASTER in CLEVELAND HTS. organized in 1921, the descendant of 6 Baptist churches. Its earliest progenitor was the Scovill Ave. Mission at Scovill and Hudson (E. 30th) St., organized as a Sunday school in 1858 by the Erie St. Baptist Church. A Gothic frame building was built the following year. The church operated as a mission of the Erie St. Church until Jan.

CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR in CLEVELAND HTS. had its roots in a Methodist Episcopal church for the Heights, established on the Nottingham-Glenville Circuit in 1875. From early meetings held in schoolhouses and homes, it grew to be a large and quintessentially suburban church, founded in the SUBURBS rather than transplanted from the inner city.

The CLEVELAND ASSEMBLY OF 1855, convened 17-20 Oct. at the Masonic Hall, was the first and last general synod of American Jewish religious and lay leaders. The meeting resulted in a prayerbook but did not succeed in uniting American Jewry. By 1855 the approx. 110 U.S. Jewish congregations followed various religious rituals, including Orthodox, traditional (Historical School) and moderate Reform, and radical Reform.

The CLEVELAND BAPTIST ASSN. began in 1832 as the Rocky River Baptist Assn., a cooperative body for area Baptist churches, and evolved into the local official voice of the American Baptist Convention. Although the Baptist religion shuns hierarchy, area Baptist churches realized a need for fellowship and help in solving problems of doctrine, finance, and pastor selection, especially for small, newly founded parishes.

The CLEVELAND BIBLE SOCIETY was a mid-19th century organization that aimed to provide morally needy Clevelanders with copies of the Bible, and generally to promote Christianity and an orderly society through missionary work. A branch of the American Bible Society (est.

The CLEVELAND BUDDHIST TEMPLE, the only Buddhist "church" in Cleveland, was organized in 1944 to serve the needs of Japanese Buddhists who came or returned to Cleveland after the dismantling of the World War II relocation centers. The temple's purpose was to provide authentic Buddhist rites and rituals for those members who did not want to surrender their faith or traditions.

The CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON SOVIET ANTI-SEMITISM, a grassroots organization, educated about the plight of Soviet Jews from 1963 until 1983, and, as the first such group in the world, spawned other local councils and a national organization. Jews living on Cleveland's west side, including Louis Rosenblum, Herbert Caron, and Abe Silverstein, created the council.

The CLEVELAND DISCIPLES UNION was formed in Aug. 1887 to promote the cause of the Disciples of Christ church in Cleveland. Spurred on by the BAPTISTS, who had been organized for half a century, the Disciples first met at the FRANKLIN CIRCLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. With 1,100 initial members, the union grew to 30,000 within 5 years.

CLEVELAND HADASSAH. See HADASSAH.


CLEVELAND LUTHERAN SCHOOLS began at the elementary level in the 1850s when individual parishes established schools to teach the doctrines of the faith and to maintain the heritage of the German immigrant members of the parishes. Instruction until the turn of the century was in German. ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, under the direction of its pastor, Rev.