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Catholic Ancestors
of
Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina
The geographic area of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina
is in the ecclesiastical province of Atlanta which includes the
Archdiocese of Atlanta (Georgia)
and Diocese of Savannah (Georgia),
Diocese of Charlotte (western
North Carolina), Diocese of Raleigh (eastern
North Carolina), and Diocese of Charleston
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Genealogical Research
of Catholic Ancestors
Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina
The geographic area of Georgia, North Carolina and
South Carolina is in the ecclesiastical province of Atlanta which includes
the Archdiocese of Atlanta (Georgia) and Diocese of Savannah (Georgia),
Dioceses of Charlotte and Raleigh (North Carolina) and the Diocese
of Charleston (South Carolina).
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Online web sites found for the Archdiocese and Dioceses are below:
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Archdiocese
of Atlanta (Georgia) [est. as Diocese 1956; Archdiocese
1962]
Chancery: Catholic Center - 680 W. Peachtree St. N.W. - Atlanta, GA
30308
Originally, the Diocese of Savannah "...included all of Georgia
and parts of Florida..." In 1936, the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta
was formed, until 1956 when 71 northern Georgia counties become encompassed
in the new Diocese of Atlanta...see
The
Catholic Church In Georgia: (A History from 1790) on the Archdiocese
of Atlanta web site.
and
ca. 1912 Diocese
of Savannah History, by Jarvis Keiley, from The Catholic Encyclopedia,
Volume XIII, 1912, by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition by Kevin
Knight, 1999.
See Counties of the
Archdiocese
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Diocese
of Savannah (Georgia) (official) [est. 1850]
Chancery: 601 E. Liberty St. - Savannah, GA
31401
Originally, the Diocese of Savannah, established in
1850, "...included all of Georgia and parts of Florida..." In 1936,
the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta was formed, until 1956 when 71 northern
Georgia counties become encompassed in the new Diocese of Atlanta...see
The
Catholic Church In Georgia: (A History from 1790) on the Archdiocese
of Atlanta web site.
and
ca. 1912 Diocese
of Savannah History, by Jarvis Keiley, from The Catholic Encyclopedia,
Volume XIII, 1912, by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition by Kevin
Knight, 1999.
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St Ignatios of Antioch (Melkite-Greek Catholic) - Diocese of Newton
1003 Merry Street - Augusta, GA 30904
Phone: (706) 481-7677 Fax: (706) 481-7680
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Diocese
of Raleigh (North Carolina) (official)
Chancery: 715 Nazareth Street - Raleigh, NC 27606
Phone: (919) 821-9700
300 Cardinal Gibbons De. - Raleigh, NC 27606
The Diocese of Raleigh was established in 1924. Though it
originally encompassed the entire state of North Carolina, in 1972, the
Diocese of Charlotte was formed to serve the western half of North Carolina,
with the eastern half of North Carolina (encompassing 54 counties), remaining
with the Diocese of Raleigh.
- ca. 1911 North
Carolina History, by Robert M. Douglas, from The Catholic Encyclopedia,
Volume XI, 1911, by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition by Kevin Knight,
1999.
- Diocese of Raleigh
Parish Directory (page-by-page - the parish names are given by town
location.)
ALBEMARLE DEANERY includes the following: Ahoskie, Buxton,
Columbia, Corolla, Currituck, Edenton, Elizabeth City, Kill Devil
Hills, Nags Head, Ocracoke and Plymouth.
CAPE FEAR Deanery includes the following: Burgaw, Castle
Hayne, Elizabethtown, Hampstead, Riegelwood, Shallotte, Southport, Surf
City, Wallace, Whiteville, Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach.
St. Joseph Parish (Pender County, NC)
1303 Hwy. 117 South - Burgaw, NC 28425
Phone: (910) 259-2601 E-mail: fatherdrew.perry@worldnet.att.net
St. Stanislaus Parish (New Hanover County, NC)
4849 Castle Hayne Rd.; Castle Hayne, NC 28429-4849
Phone: (910) 675-2336 E-mail: STSTANS4@BELLSOUTH.NET
Our Lady of Snows Parish (Bladen County, NC)
701 E Broad Street - Elizabethtown, NC 28337
Phone: (910) 862-4998
St. Jude the
Apostle Parish [est. 1991] (Pender County, NC)
18737 US Hwy. 17. - Hampstead, NC 28443
Phone: (910) 270-1477 E-mail: stjudehampstead@coastalnet.com
Christ the King Parish
Hwy 87 - Riegelwood, NC 28456
Phone: (910) 392-0879 E-mail: rjkus@aol.com
St. Brendan Parish (Brunswick County, NC)
5101 Ocean Hwy. W. - Shallotte, NC 28459
Phone: (910) 754-8544 E-mail: stbrendan007@infoave.net
Sacred Heart Parish (Brunswick County, NC)
5269 Dosher Cutoff S.E. - Southport, NC 28461
Phone: (910) 457-6173
St. Mary Gate of Heaven Parish (Pender County, NC)
420 N. Topsail Drive - Surf City, NC 28445-2667
Phone: (910) 270-1477 E-mail: collins@raldioc.org
Transfiguration Parish (Duplin
County, NC)
508 E. Main Street - Wallace, NC 28466 Phone:
(910) 285-1876
Sacred Heart Parish (Columbus County, NC)
402 N. Lee Street -Whiteville, NC 28472-3232
Phone: (910) 642-3895
St. Mark Parish
(New Hanover County, NC)
1011 Eastwood Road -Wilmington, NC 28403-1905
Phone: (910) 392-0720 E-mail: secretary@stmarkcatholicchurch.com
St. Mary Parish
(New Hanover County, NC)
412 Ann Street - Wilmington, NC 28401-4596
Phone: (910) 762-5491
Immaculate Conception Parish (New Hanover County, NC)
6650 Carolina Beach Road - Wilmington, NC 28412-3004
Phone: (910) 791-1003 E-mail: wwalshosfs@aol.com
FAYETTEVILLE Deanery includes the following: Clinton, Dunn,
Fayetteville, Hope Mills, Ingold, Laurinburg, Lumberton, Meadow View, Newton
Grove, Pinehurst, Raeford, Red Springs, Robbins, Sanford and Southern Pines.
NEW BERN Deanery includes the following: Havelock, Jacksonville,
Kinston, Morehead City, New Bern, Swansboro, Washington, and Williamston
PIEDMONT Deanery includes the following: Burlington, Butner,
Chapel Hill, Durham, Henderson/Oxford, Hillsboro, Roxboro, Siler City and
Warrenton.
RALEIGH Deanery includes the following: Apex, Cary, Fuquay-Varina,
Garner, Louisburg, Raleigh, Wake Forest and Wendell.
TAR RIVER Deanery includes the following: Farmville, Goldsboro,
Greenville, Mount Olive, Roanoke Rapids, Rocky Mount, Smithfield, Tarboro
and Wilson.
- Sacred Heart
Cathedral - Raleigh, NC
200 Hillsborough Street - Raleigh NC 27603
Phone: (919) 832-6030.
Office: 219 West Edenton Street - Raleigh NC 27603.
- St. Andrew the Apostle Parish
(Wake County, NC)
3008 Old Raleigh Road - Apex NC 27502-9254
Phone: (919) 362-0414.
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Diocese
of Charlotte (North Carolina) [est. 1972]
Chancery: P.O. Box 36776 - Charlotte, NC 28236
Phone: (704) 377-6871.
The Diocese of Raleigh was
established in 1924. Though it originally encompassed the entire
state of North Carolina, in 1972, the Diocese of Charlotte was formed to
serve the western half of North Carolina, with the eastern half of North
Carolina (encompassing 54 counties), remaining with the Diocese of Raleigh.
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Diocese
of Charleston (South Carolina) [est. 1820]
Chancery: 119 Broad St. - P.O. Box 818 - Charleston,
SC 29402
Originally, The Diocese of Charleston included the area of the states
of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. It presently encompasses
the entire state of South Carolina.
- History of the Diocese
of Charleston - Established in 1820, the first Bishop was
Bishop
John England, from the Diocese of Cork. John England had
been the first priest ordained in the
Cathedral
of St. Mary and St. Anne in Cork, Ireland.
- ca. 1908 Diocese
of Charleston History, by P. L. Duffy, from The Catholic Encyclopedia,
Volume III, 1908, by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition by Kevin Knight,
1999.
- ca. 1912 South
Carolina History, by Jarvis Keiley, from The Catholic Encyclopedia,
Volume XIV, 1912, by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition by Kevin Knight,
1999.
Byzantine
Catholic
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The Apostolic Exarchate Armenian-Rite for the U.S. & Canada
in New York (Venerable Exarch.: Hovhannes Terzakian, 1995)
Address: 110 East, 12th Street - New York, NY 10003 U.S.A. Ph:
(212) 477-2030
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Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance
of Newark of the Syrians: Syriac Catholic Diocese for Syrians in the U.
S. and Canada (Chorbishop Joseph Younan appointed as the first Bishop of
this diocese in 1995)
P.O. Box 8366 - Union City, NJ 07087-8262
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Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Ruthenian) Unofficial
Site includes parish directory (AL, AR, KY, LA,
MS, OH, OK,
west PA, TX, WV)
History
of Byzantine-Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church)
An Unofficial
U.S.A. Parish directory
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Eparchy of Passaic,
NJ (CT, FL,
GA,
MA,
MD,
NJ,
NY,
NC,
east PA,
VA)
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Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel
96 First Street - Passaic, New
Jersey 07055
- The
Eparchy
of Newton (Melkite) - [Est. 1966]
- Melkite Catholic Churches in Georgia:
- St. John Chrysostom, 1428 Ponce de Leon Ave. - NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
- St Ignatios of Antioch (Melkite-Greek Catholic) - Diocese of Newton
1003 Merry Street - P.O. Box 3351 - Augusta, GA 30904
Phone: (706) 481-7677 Fax: (706) 481-7680
- The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
in L'viv, Ukraine (in English)
(Byzantine)
Chancery: Ukraine
79000 m. Lviv
Ploscha sv. Yura, 5
UGCC - Zvernenya
- For more information on the Byzantine Catholic Churches in the United
States Click
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Catholic Cemeteries
The following is a USGen Web page - not a Catholic Site, but they
are building a library of cemeteries in Rutherford
County, NC.
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Historical Research of Catholic
Churches & Ancestors
Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina
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Archdiocese of Atlanta
Archives and History
- The
Catholic Church In Georgia: A History from 1790, on the web site of
Archdiocese
of Atlanta) "...Florida was detached in 1969 to become the
Province
of Miami..."
- Catholic History
in Georgia, by Jarvis Keiley, from The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume
VI, 1909, by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition, 1999 by Kevin Knight.
"...The Diocese of
Savannah,
which comprises the State of Georgia, was established in 1850. As late
as the period of the American Revolution there was scarcely a Catholic
to be found in the colony or State of Georgia, nor was there a priest in
the State for many years thereafter. Bishop England states that there were
not twenty-five priests in all the colonies at that time..."
- The Georgia Bulletin
- Archdiocese of Atlanta News
- The
Southern Cross - The Diocese of Savannah News
- Atlanta Catholic Centennial
1837-1937
- Diocese of Charleston (South
Carolina) select Diocesan History
- ca. 1912 South
Carolina History, by Jarvis Keiley, from The Catholic Encyclopedia,
Volume XIV, 1912, by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition by Kevin Knight,
1999.
It was not until a generation after the Revolution, with its disestablishment
of the Anglican Church in the states of North and South Carolina, that
the Metropolitan of the United States solicited the pope to erect a southern
diocese for the bands of Catholics scattered through Georgia and the Carolinas.
To include these states in its territory, the See of Charleston was erected
by Pius VII, 11 July, 1820, and the Rev. John England, the parish priest
of Killorgan and Ballymoodan, Ireland, was consecrated its bishop.
In 1850, during the episcopate of Bishop Reynolds, the See of Savannah
was erected with jurisdiction over Georgia and Eastern Florida, and the
Diocese of Charleston henceforth comprised the Carolinas.
- ca. 1911 North
Carolina History, by Robert M. Douglas, from The Catholic Encyclopedia,
Volume XI, 1911, by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition by Kevin Knight,
1999.
Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina, established 3 March 1868, was
formed from the from the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina.
It comprised the entire state until 1910, when the eight counties of Gaston,
Lincoln, Cleveland, Rutherford, Polk, Burke, McDowell, and Catawby were
cut off from the vicariate to form the diocese of the Cathedral Abbey at
Belmont, situated in Gaston County.
- St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church - "..The
first Roman Catholic church in North Carolina. Consecrated, 1829. Burned
by Federal troops, 1864. Stood one block east. US 17
(Bridge
Street) at Third Street in Washington." Beaufort County, NC
- Belmont Abbey
College
100 Belmont-Mount Holly Road - Belmont, NC 28012-1802
- Belmont Abbey - A Benedictine
Monastery founded in 1876
100 Belmont-Mount Holly Road - Belmont, NC 28012-1802
U.S.A.
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South Carolina History & Genealogy - from the
Charleston County Library
- South
Carolina Department of Archives and History
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References used include:
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11990 Catholic Almanac. Felician A.
Foy, O.F. M. (Editor), Rose M. Avato (Associate Editor). Huntington:
Our Sunday Visitory Publishing Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.
and
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1998 Catholic Almanac. Felician A. Foy, O.F. M. and Rose M. Avato
(Editors and Compilers). Huntington: Our Sunday Visitory Publishing
Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.
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2New
Advent, Inc. From the Catholic Encyclopedia, copyright ©
1913 by the Encyclopedia Press, Inc. Electronic version copyright ©
1997 by New Advent, Inc. (A Catholic Web Site transcribing The Catholic
Encyclopedia: an International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine,
Discipline and History of the Catholic Church. Herbermann, Pace,
et al. (Editors). Imprint: Appleton (New York) 1907-1912.)
Information learned from the web sites for the Archdioceses, Dioceses,
and Catholic Church.
Diocese List:
Archdiocese of Atlanta (Georgia) [est. 19561]
Diocese of Savannah (Georgia) [est. 18501]
Diocese of Charlotte (North Carolina) [est.
19711]
Diocese of Raleigh (North Carolina) [est.
19241]
Diocese of Charleston (South Carolina) [est.
18201]