Blossburg

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St Andrew the Apostle

Established as a pastorate in 1853,^1,2 now merged with St Mary's, Blossburg

• St Andrew's Cemetery³ - sites.rootsweb.com/~patioga/cemetery/
  standrew.htm

St Mary's [Polish]

Established as a pastorate in 1875, one of the first Polish parishes in the diocese³

• Polish Catholic Cemetery - sites.rootsweb.com/~patioga/cemetery/
  polcath.htm

   

  

  Notes

  1. Gallagher, Rev John P; A Century of History: The Diocese of Scranton 1868-1968, Scranton: The Diocese of Scranton, 1968, pp69, 294
  2. Earley, James B, Envisioning Faith: A Pictorial History of the Diocese of Scranton, United States: 1993, p20; quoting an unsigned 1963 Catholic Light article on the journal of Philadelphia Bishop, St John Neumann.
  3. Rolfe, Maro O, Old Tioga andd Ninety Years of its Existence, Tioga: Bunnell and Rolfe, 1877. sites.rootsweb.com/~srgp/bookst/1877c3.htm
  5. Gallagher, op cit, pp152, 294-96