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Annunciation | Ascension | Holy Rosary
Immaculate Conception | Mater Dolorosa | St Ann's | St Bonifice

Annunciation

www.annunchurch.org

Established as a pastorate in 1865 after splitting with St Boniface's; church built in 1868; rebuilt & dedicated 1889^1,2,3

Ascension

Established as a pastorate in 1903⁴

Holy Rosary - see Newberry

Immaculate Conception - see Bastress

Mater Dolorosa [Italian]

Established as a pastorate in 1908⁵

St Ann's - see Faxon

St Bonifice's [German]

built in 1854 as a mission of St Joseph's, Milton, with both German and Irish members; established as a pastorate 1857-1865; 1865 became mission of Immaculate Conception, Bastress, due to lack of German priests; 1869 reestablished as a pastorate^6,7

 



Notes

1. Gallagher, Rev John P; A Century of History: The Diocese of Scranton 1868-1968, Scranton: The Diocese of Scranton, 1968, p 104-11
2. Meginness, John F, editor, History of Lycoming County Pennsylvania, 1892, www.usgennet.org/usa/pa/county/lycoming/history/Chapter-23.html
3. Annunciation Parish, "History," www.annunchurch.org/history1.asp
4. Gallagher, Rev John P, op cit, p293
5. Ibid, p298
6. Ibid, p104-108
7. Meginness, John F, editor, History of Lycoming County Pennsylvania, 1892, http://www.usgennet.org/usa/pa/county/lycoming/history/Chapter-23.html