The geographic area of Washington, District of Columbia is in the ecclesiastical province of Washington, D. C. which includes the Archdiocese of Washington, D. C. includes 5 counties of Maryland and Diocese of St. Thomas (Virgin Islands).

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Genealogical Research of Catholic Ancestors
Washington District of Columbia

     Online web sites found for the Archdiocese and Dioceses are below:
•  Archdiocese of Washington D. C. (Official) [est. 1939¹]
   Chancery:  P.O. Box 29260 - Washington, D. C.  20017
• History
• Parish Directory (including: Montgomery, Prince George's, Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's Counties in the state of Maryland)
See St. Patrick's: "The Oldest Catholic Parish in the Federal City" - 1794
• Catholic Standard - News
• Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
   400 Michigan Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20017-1566
   Phone: 202-526-8300     Online Contacts
• Diocese of Saint Thomas (American Virgin Islands)
For Byzantine Catholic refer to
• 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
 
• 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
 
• 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
• Eparchy of Passaic, NJ  (CT, FL, GA, MA, MD, NJ, NY, NC, east PA, VA)
• Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel
       96 First Street - Passaic, New Jersey 07055
• Other Sites of Interest
• For more information on the Byzantine Catholic Churches in the United States Click here to return to Main Local Catholic Byzantine Links

The Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Archparchy of Pittsburgh


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•  United States Military Archdiocese
      Chancery: 962 Wayne Ave. - Silver Spring, MD  20910
Catholic Chaplain's Monument at Arlington National Cemetery

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Historical Research of Catholic Churches & Ancestors
Washington District of Columbia  See also Catholic Biographies
Explorers and Missionaries
• Archdiocese of Washington D. C. History - Jesuit Father Andrew White celebrated the first mass in the colonies in St. Mary's County in 1634 & St. Francis Xavier parish in Newtowne dates to 1640 with it's church being the oldest Catholic Church in the original 13 Colonies - dating to 1731...
• Spanish Conquistadors in North America (De Soto from 1539)
Dioceses and Churches
• Bascilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington D. C.)
• History of the Bascilica  and  Virtual Tour of the Bascilica
• St. Patrick's: "The Oldest Catholic Parish in the Federal City" - 1794
Schools
Catholic History General
• Tidbits of Church History in America (St. Patrick's in Washington, D. C.)
• British Colonial Penal Laws against public Catholic Church (1704-American Revolution): St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia, PA and St. Francis Xavier in Newtown, MD - unique exceptions
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Catholic Biographies
If you know of a web site for a biography of a Catholic with a Washington, D. C. connection, please let me know. Explorerers and Missionaries
• Spanish Conquistadors in North America (De Soto from 1539)
• Pioneer Priests of Indiana:
• Father August Adam
• Father Stephen Theodore Badin
• Joseph Kundek and August Bessonies
• Archbishop Leonard Neale (1746-1815) linked to MD, buried beneath Georgtown Visitation Convent Chapel
Catholic Families Associated with Washington, D.C.
• Auldridge- Cozzens/ Brown- Burriss Family Tree, by Ginny Auldridge - "...Frank Auldridge born 1865, Washington, DC, married Johanna, died in 1901..."
Saints
• St. Patrick's Index to the Saints
 

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I am voluntarily creating this site as a helpful guide to researching the history of the local Catholic Churches and to help genealogists who are researching Catholic ancestors in this geographic area.
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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.

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• 1998 Catholic Almanac.  Felician A. Foy, O.F. M. and Rose M. Avato (Editors and Compilers).  Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.
• 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.