St Patrick’s Church in Kansas City, Missouri
We’ve been to St Patrick’s Church before here on Irish KC, but as we approach the day that celebrates Ireland’s patron saint, there’s a nice feature on Kansas City’s 3rd Catholic Church (after Immaculate Conception and Saints Peter & Paul German parish) in the KC Tribune today.
Did you know that St. Patrick’s, like all Kansas City Catholic churches, was officially in the St. Louis diocese until the formation of the Diocese of Kansas City and St. Joseph in 1880?
To provide a cathedral seat for the bishop, current Immaculate Conception Cathedral was completed on the site of the old French St. Regis and later frame-built Immaculate Conception sanctuaries shortly after.
However, that very fact underlines the seniority of St. Patrick’s as the oldest existing religious structure in the city. All of the surrounding downtown congregations either moved to the suburbs or have since built replacement facilities
Read the whole article in the Tribune.
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