SPELLACY, HON. LEO M. (5 Nov. 1934 - 28 May 2021) was the longest-presiding judge in the history of Cuyahoga County and was very active in service initiatives throughout his lifetime. He was the fourth of five children born to William Spellacy and Margaret Kelly.
Category: Religion
SS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS PARISH, 12608 Madison Ave., was established to serve Roman Catholic Slovak immigrants living in southeastern LAKEWOOD, an area called the BIRD'S NEST. Since the closest church for Slovak Catholics was ST.
The congregation of SS. PETER AND PAUL CHURCH was formed when Ukrainian Byzantine Rite Catholics from Galicia withdrew from ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH over nationality differences. The parish was founded in 1902 and a church built in 1910 at W.
ST. ADALBERT PARISH was established by Bishop RICHARD GILMOUR in 1883 to serve the growing population of Bohemian (CZECH) Catholics living east of Willson Avenue (East 55th Street). Rapid industrialization in the west Broadway neighborhood surrounding ST.
ST. AGATHA PARISH was established by Bishop EDWARD F.
ST. AGNES PARISH was established in 1893 to serve upper middle-class Catholics residing in the HOUGH neighborhood, but became a majority AFRICAN-AMERICAN parish by the 1950s.
ST. ALBAN'S PARISH. See EMMANUEL CHURCH (EPISCOPAL).
ST. ANDREW ABBEY in Cleveland received the status of an independent Benedictine community on 12 Aug. 1929 and was designated an independent abbey on 13 July 1934. The Benedictines, the oldest Roman Catholic monastic community in the world, came to Cleveland in 1922 when 2 monks from the Slovak community at St. Procopius Abbey in Lisle, IL, responded to a request from Bp.
ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH was the elite black church in Cleveland at its founding in 1890. Formerly a mission that grew out of Trinity and Grace Episcopal churches, St. Andrew's was accepted as a parish by the Diocesan Convention of EPISCOPALIANS in 1892 (formally inc. 25 June 1926).
ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH (1886-1961) was the first Roman Catholic parish to serve Italian immigrants in Cleveland's HAYMARKET area. Fr. Pacifico Capitani first held services for Italians at ST. JOHN CATHEDRAL. A search was begun for a suitable church, and a frame hall on Ohio St.
ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH. See ST. PATRICK'S PARISH.
ST. BERNARD'S was a small parish that evolved into the congregation that built ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH on Woodland Ave. near East 23rd St. St. Bernard's began in 1855 as an outreach of St. Peter's Church, as a school in rented quarters on Irving (E. 25th) St.
ST. BRIDGET'S CHURCH. See ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH.
ST. CATHERINE PARISH obtained parish status from the Diocese of Cleveland in 1898 and chose its name to honor the mother of Cleveland's third bishop, the Right Reverend IGNATIUS F. HORSTMANN.
ST. CECILIA PARISH traces its origins to a public meeting, held in November 1913, at which the Catholic residents of Cleveland's MOUNT PLEASANT neighborhood resolved to petition Bishop JOHN P. FARRELLY for the creation of a new parish to serve their spiritual and social needs.
ST. COLMAN'S CHURCH. See ST. PATRICK'S PARISH.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.