Category: Religion

JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY was founded in 1886 as a liberal arts college for men, initially under the name St. Ignatius College. It was operated by priests of the Buffalo Mission of the German Province of the Society of Jesus who had accepted the invitation of Bishop RICHARD GILMOUR to open a college in Cleveland.

The JONES ROAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, founded by Welsh immigrants living in the Broadway and Harvard Ave. section of Cleveland (originally NEWBURGH), developed out of a Sunday school and prayer group held in the home of William Jones on Harvard St. in 1857. The Welsh Congregational Society organized and built a small church on Wales St. in 1860.

The JULIE BILLIART SCHOOL, operated by the SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME, was the first school in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland to devote itself to the education of children with learning problems. Founded in 1954 on the NOTRE DAME ACADEMY campus at Ansel Rd.

The KEHILLAH was a second attempt by Cleveland East European Jews to establish an organization to guard Jewish interests. The organizational meeting, attended by 75 people, was held at B'NAI JESHURUN Congregation in 1913 by the former leaders of the defunct UNION OF JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS, which had formed in 1906.

KELLEY, SR. MARGARET ANN (November 29, 1931-January 21, 2013) was a Catholic nun, teacher, and administrator who worked to transform the schools she led by encouraging strong community participation. She was the youngest of four children born to John Joseph and Ellen (Hayes) Kelley.

The KINSMAN JEWISH CENTER, established in 1930 as B'nai Jacob Kol Israel Congregation, was one of the most important Orthodox Jewish congregations in Cleveland between 1930-60, and was also one of the city's first Orthodox congregations to be organized along non-national lines. Its founders had been members of the Anshe Marmoresher B'nai Jacob Congregation, Kinsman branch (est. 1928).

The KOL ISRAEL FOUNDATION is an organization of Cleveland survivors of the Holocaust. Kol Israel, which means "All of Israel," was founded in 1959 to represent area Holocaust survivors while helping secure special education, guidance, vocational training, economic and social adjustment for people from foreign lands settling in Greater Cleveland. It also supplies charitable support for the State of Israel.

KOREAN CHURCHES IN CLEVELAND began to organize after a modification in immigration quotas in 1970, when thousands of Koreans entered the U.S., many of them coming to Cleveland. While there were some denominational preferences, many Koreans were either unchurched or unaffiliated. The KOREAN ASSN.

The LABOR SCHOOL MOVEMENT was part of a national education movement established by the Assn. of Catholic Trade Unionists in the late 1930s to counteract Communist infiltration into the union movement. The local movement was first organized in 1941 at St. Augustine Parish by the Assn. to educate Catholic union members on the conduct of unions according to Catholic principles based on justice and non-violence.

LUTHERAN HOSPITAL, located at 2609 Franklin Boulevard, was established in 1896 by the Evangelical Lutheran Hospital Association of Cleveland. It was originally located in a private residence in FRANKLIN CIRCLE at West 28th Street and Dexter Avenue. In 1898 the Marcus Hanna home was acquired and adapted for hospital use.

LUTHERANS. When early Lutheran immigrants from Northern European countries settled in the WESTERN RESERVE, as elsewhere, they formed branches of the church that were as diverse as their linguistic, ethnic, and political backgrounds. Strains of the church differed according to orthodoxy, pietism, rationalism, idealism, and historical criticism.

The MAYFLOWER CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL, EUCLID AVE. at Lockwood Ave., formed in December 1920 from the merger of Park Congregational and Calvary Congregational churches. Park Congregational Church originated as an interdenominational Sunday school (July 1886) located at Doan and Crawford (Ashbury) streets, which subsequently became the Union Chapel, staffed by supply pastors.