St. Vincent De Paul Church, 1835 - Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
N 43° 15.209 W 079° 04.078
17T E 656829 N 4790776
A sign explaining the history of the oldest surviving Catholic Church still used for worship in Ontario
Waymark Code: WM18T1H
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 09/21/2023
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This sign is located in front of Saint Vincent De Paul Roman Catholic Church, on the corner of Wellington and Picton Streets, just to the east of Simcoe Park, in the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. It explains the history of the church, which was built in 1835 and is "the oldest surviving Catholic Church still used for regular worship in the Province of Ontario." The sign was placed by the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Catharines.
The text of the sign reads:
The Parish of St. Vincent de Paul is the direct successor of the many and often interrupted missionary endeavours in the Niagara area since 1626. At first concerned with the native peoples, later French and then English-speaking priests came as chaplains for the troops stationed at Fort Niagara and Fort George.
The first permanent parish with a resident priest was established here in 1826 to serve the pastoral needs of the growing number of Catholics in the Niagara Peninsula and the west-central part of the Province. Though the area of its pastoral jurisdiction was soon reduced, St. Vincent de Paul remained very mush a spiritual home to Catholics from both sides of the Niagara River for many years.
Bishop Alexander Macdonell of Kingston blessed the frame church with its Gothic windows on November 9, 1835. The Most Reverend Thomas J. McCarthy, Bishop of St. Catharines, blessed the restoration of the original church and the polygon-shaped addition to the front of the building on July 25, 1965. Today St. Vincent de Paul, an example of early church architecture in Canada, remains the oldest surviving Catholic Church still used for regular worship in the Province of Ontario.
This plaque was blessed and dedicated by The Most Reverend Thomas B. Fulton, D.D., Bishop of St. Catharines, on Sunday, December 1, 1985.
An historical plaque of the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Catharines.
Group that erected the marker: Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Catharines
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
73 Picton Street
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON Canada
L0S 1J0
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