Pennsylvania Parish Founding Dates
Pennsylvania – Delaware County – Spinoffs from St. Thomas The Apostle
Pennsylvania
Founding Year | Parish | Diocese |
1729 | St. Thomas The Apostle at Ivy Mills | Philadelphia |
1730 | Sacred Heart (Conewago Chapel) | Harrisburg |
1733 | Old St. Joseph | Philadelphia |
1741 | Most Blessed Sacrament (First known as the Mission of Goshenhoppen in Bally, then as St. Paul) |
Allentown |
1763 | Old St. Mary | Philadelphia |
1790 | Saint Vincent | Greensburg |
1799 | St. Michael | Altoona/Johnstown |
1808 | Saint Patrick | Pittsburgh |
1830 | Saint Francis (Clearfield) | Erie |
1853 | Saint Vincent | Scranton |
Delaware County
Founding Year |
Parish | Location |
1825 | Saint Denis | Havertown |
1842-1993 | Saint Michael | Chester |
1849 | St. Charles Borromeo | Drexel Hill |
Parishes Formed From St. Thomas The Apostle
at Ivy Mills
Founding Year |
Parish | Location |
1868 | Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary | Media |
1869 | Saint Patrick | Kennett Square |
1894 | Saint Francis de Sales | Lenni |
1963 | Saint Cornelius | Chadds Ford (then Birmingham) |
1971 | Saint John Fisher | Boothwyn |
1986 | Saint Maximilian Kolbe | Westtown |
Lists compiled by Kathy McNichol & Marianne Squyres
2005, 2012