Parish Founding Dates

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