Dunmore
All Saints [Slovak]324 [330] 15 Ward Street
Dunmore PA 18512-2492 ph 570-346-7429 Established as a pastorate in 1920, last Slovak parish formed in Lackawanna; 1 merged with St Mary of Mt Carmel and St Casimir's, Dunmore, 1998 12
Christ the King1214 Quincy Avenue
Dunmore PA 18510-2902 ph 570-343-2777
Established as a pastorate in 1949
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,
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St Anthony of Padua [Italian]303 [316] 15 Smith Street
Dunmore PA 18512-2998 ph 570-344-1209 www.saintanthonyofpaduadunmore.org
Established as a pastorate in 1900
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St Casimir [Polish]114 [106] 15 Prospect Street
Dunmore PA 18512 ph 570-346-7429
Established as a pastorate in 1939;
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,
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merged with St Mary of Mt Carmel, Dunmore, between 1990-92,
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, and with All Saints in 1998.
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St Gabriel of Our Mother of Sorrows Chapel1600 Green Ridge Street
Dunmore PA Listed in the 1942-43 Scranton Directory. 15 St Gabriel's Retreat was run in Dunmore by the Passionist nuns and has since relocated to Clarks Summit; the property is currently Villa St Joseph, the diocesan residence for retired priests
St Mary of Mount Carmel322 Chestnut Street
Dunmore PA 18512-2902 ph 570-346-7429
Mission status 1852; established as a pastorate in 1856 as SS Simon and Jude
the Apostles (St Simon's), renamed 1874;
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,
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,
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merged with All Saints (1998)
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and St Casimir's (between 1990-92)
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, Dunmore; two cemeteries, St Mary's, next to the church on Chestnut St, and
Records mainly date back to 1856; early Mt Carmel cemetery records were detroyed in a fire in the early '20s.
St Michael the Archangel Byzantine511 [515] 15 E Drinker Street
Dunmore PA 18512 ph 570-344-2521 Cemetery Scranton (PA) Times , Fri 9 Sep 1955 St Michael's Greek Catholic Church will be rededicated on Sun 18 Sep with high mass, followed by a banquet at All Saints Church Hall. Ceremonies mark the completion of extensive renovation costing $55,000. Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Nicholas T Elko, DD, Apostolic Exarch of Pittsburgh; Bishop Jerome Hannon of Scranton will preside. Assisted by Archpriests, V Rev Nicholas Chopey of Wilkes-Barre & V Rev Joseph Jackanich of Hazelton; Rev Robert Moneta of Wilkes-Barre, Rev Joseph Ridella of Nanticoke, Rev John Bovankovich of Scranton, Rev William Lesko of Scranton, Rev Andrew Pataki of Endicott NY, Rev Theodore Rudy of Hazelton, V Rev George Bonchansky of Homestead, Rev Andrew Stim of Jessup, Rev Michael Dudick of Old Forge, Rev Michael Warady of Pittston and Rev Joseph Skakaley of Forest City. Rev Bonetzkey, honorary chair.
St Rocco [Italian]118 [132] 15 Kurtz Street
Dunmore PA 18510-1539 ph 570-344-1239
Established as a pastorate in 1917-18
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NotesGallagher, Rev John P; A Century of History: The Diocese of Scranton 1868-1968 , Scranton: The Diocese of Scranton, 1968, p297 Ibid , p347 Christ the King Church, "History of Christ the King Church, Dunmore," www.icckc.net/ckc_history.htm Ibid , p298 Ibid , p347 Ibid , p69,145 Saint Mary of Mount Carmel ~ All Saints ~ Saint Casimir, "History", www.stmarysdunmore.com/html/history_.html Murphy, Thomas, Jubilee History Commemorative of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Creation of Lackawanna County Pennsylvania, Volume I , Topeka, Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Company, 1928, pp454-455; Transcription Byzantine Catholic Community of Scranton, "History of the Parish [St Mary's], www.byzantines.net/scranton/history.htm Gallagher, op cit , p298 Polhome.com, "Roman Catholic Parishes of Polish Ethnicity in the US," www.polhome.com/church-p.html#pennsylwania , lists date 1929, but no explanation; possibly when the church was built. Saint Mary of Mount Carmel ~ All Saints ~ Saint Casimir, "History", www.stmarysdunmore.com/html/history_.html Murphy, Thomas, Jubilee History Commemorative of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Creation of Lackawanna County Pennsylvania, Volume I , Topeka, Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Company, 1928; Transcription Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies catalog, "A half century Saint Michael the Archangel Byzantine Catholic Church: 1911-1961", pacl-iol2.auto-graphics.com/wp2000/Fulldsp.asp?myses=24739&cuid=pacl&cusrvr=VIRGO&cr=2&r=37466474 1942-43 Scranton City Directory, sites.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/churches/church2.html Gallagher, Msgr John P, A Second Century Begins: The Diocese of Scranton 1968-1993 , Scranton: The Diocese of Scranton, 1993, p159 |
