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National Parishes: German

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German immigrants were the first to realize that their interests were not always the same as the Irish majority's and they requested separate diocesan status. This was denied, but in its stead, the Vatican suggested to American, primarily Irish, bishops that where feasible special consessions be granted to minority communities, which brought about the birth of national parishes.¹

1. Immaculate Conception, Bastress
2. Saint Mary Magdalen, Honesdale
3. Saint Boniface, Williamsport
4. Saint Nicholas, Wilkes-Barre
5. Saint Bonaventure, Scranton (1865-1874)
6. Saint Mary of the Assumption, Scranton (1874)
7. Saint Mary of the Assumption, Pittston (1883)
8. Saint John the Baptist, Scranton (1885)
9. Holy Trinity, Hazleton (1887)
10. Sacred Heart, Luzerne (1893)
11. Saint Boniface, Wilkes-Barre (1896)
12. Sacred Heart, Weston (1898)
13. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Duryea (1901)

Notes

1. Gallagher, Rev John P; A Century of History: The Diocese of Scranton 1868-1968, Scranton: The Diocese of Scranton, 1968, p151