Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church
The large majority of Greek Catholic immigrants who settled in the Barnesboro area were Carpatho-Rusyns. They came to Patton, Hastings, and Barnesboro in the 1890s to work in the bituminous […]
Saint Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church
When the Slavs settled in Fayette and surrounding counties of Pennsylvania at the turn of the 20th century, their numbers became a source of security and comfort. Praying to God […]
Saints Peter and Paul Byzantine Catholic Church
The first of the Greek Catholic faithful to come to the locale which later was known as Patton, Pa. arrived in 1893. Five years later, a sizeable group established themselves […]
Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church
The history of St. John the Baptist parish began in 1891, when the present-day St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church, located at South Seventh and East Carson Streets, […]
Saint Mary Byzantine Catholic Church
The congregants of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church in Ambridge attended their first Divine Liturgy on November 3, 1940 in a white wooden church of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. […]
Saint George Byzantine Catholic Church
At the turn of the century, many immigrants settled in the small community of Aliquippa along the Ohio River about 25 miles north of Pittsburgh. The iron and steel industry […]
Saint Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Chapel
Father St. Nicholas Chapel was built in 1992, when the Greek Catholic Union of the USA, the largest fraternal benefit society serving Byzantine (Greek) Catholics, observed the centennial anniversary of […]
Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church
Already chartered as a corporation in Pennsylvania, the “Russian Greek Catholic Church of Avella” purchased a parcel of land from the Pittsburgh and Southwestern Coal Company. This property, located in […]
Saint Mary Byzantine Catholic Church
The Byzantine Catholic people truly had difficult beginnings when they immigrated to America. They came to establish a new life of hope, a new life of living and a new […]
Saints Peter & Paul Byzantine Catholic Church
Prior to 1896, Byzantine Catholic residents of Braddock and surrounding communities did not have a church of their own in which to worship. In May of that year the process […]