St. Patrick Cathedral - Fort Worth, Texas
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N 32° 44.957 W 097° 19.787
14S E 656473 N 3624726
The cornerstone of St. Patrick’s Church, which eventually became St. Patrick Cathedral , was laid in 1888; the church was built just north of St. Stanislaus Church and dedicated in 1892.
Waymark Code: WM7C7E
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2009
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from the Handbook of Texas
The parish began in 1876, when Bishop Claude M. Dubuis of Galveston assigned Father Thomas Loughrey to Fort Worth as its first resident priest. Within three months a small frame parish church had been erected and dedicated to the Polish Jesuit Saint Stanislaus Kostka. In 1884 Father Jean Marie Guyot replaced Father Loughrey as pastor, and by 1888 the cornerstone for a new church had been blessed and laid in place. The new church, to be located just a few feet north of St. Stanislaus, was renamed St. Patrick by vote of the congregation. The Gothic Revival structure, designed by architect J. J. Kane and constructed of native limestone, was dedicated July 10, 1892, by the first bishop of Dallas, Thomas F. Brennan. Father Guyot died in 1907; his body is interred in the basement crypt of the church. The old St. Stanislaus church was converted into a parish hall and day school. In about 1908 it was removed to make room for what is now the rectory.
In 1885, at the invitation of Father Guyot, the Belgian Sisters of St. Mary of Namur arrived in Fort Worth to teach the parish children and to open their own boarding school for young ladies, St. Ignatius Academy. During its first few years the Academy was organized in two small houses purchased by the order and located on property adjacent to the church. The school grew rapidly, and in 1889 the sisters completed a three-story French Empire school building immediately south of the old church. By 1910 there was no more room for St. Ignatius to expand. The order purchased land several miles south of the downtown area and built another school, Our Lady of Victory, to be used as a high school for the older students. They continued to operate the Academy as a Catholic school until 1956, when it was sold to the parish. The building was being used as the religious education facility and parish hall in the early 1990s. The church attained the rank of co-cathedral on December 8, 1953, when the name of the Diocese of Dallas was changed to the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth. When the Diocese of Fort Worth was founded August 22, 1969, St. Patrick's became the seat of the new diocese. The church and academy were recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1962, and in 1985 the cathedral complex was enrolled in the National Register of Historic Places. The Texas Historical Commissionqv in 1990 approved a Texas historical marker for the site of St. Stanislaus Church.
Date the Church was built, dedicated or cornerstone laid: 01/01/1888
Age of Church building determined by?: Cornerstone or plaque
If denomination of Church is not part of the name, please provide it here: Catholic
If Church holds a weekly worship service and "all are welcome", please give the day of the week: Sunday
Indicate the time that the primary worship service is held. List only one: 10:30 AM
Street address of Church:
1206 Throckmorton Street
Fort Worth, Texas USA
76133
Primary website for Church or Historic Church Building: [Web Link]
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If Church is open to the public, please indicate hours: Not listed
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