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History: St Lawrence Catholic Church

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Saint Lawrence Catholic Church

in Cleveland, Ohio, USA from 1893 to 2010




The parish started in 1901 in Newburgh to serve the growing Slovenian Community. Even though Newburgh was where the initial Slovenes settled when arriving to Cleveland they did not get their own church until 1901 and as a split off of St Vitus. The first pastor, Francis Kerze, was the assistant pastor at St Vitus Catholic Church. This is all odd since the first, early Slovenes of Cleveland settled in Newburgh and not St Clair. But the St Clair community grew much larger, quicker and established St Vitus and the larger National Home there first.

The community was large and vibrant in the 1920's and 1930's with the large, Slovenian Catholic families in each home there.

The parish was closed on 20 June 2010.


Pastors

Pastors performing ceremonies such as weddings, are:
1901- Rev. Francis Kerze
1931-1949 Rev. John. J. "JJ" Oman
Msgr. Louis Baznik
1955 Rev Francis Baraga
Most Rev. A. Edward Pevec
1975 Rev Joseph Varga



See Also

St Vitus Catholic Church


Slovenes in Cleveland in Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Closing of St Lawrence in ClevelandSlovenian
Newburgh in Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Postcard from Cleveland Memory

History

Information Version
Mon 25 of Jun, 2018 17:28 EDT Randy Clean up image references 10
Sun 21 of Jan, 2018 20:58 EST Randy Fix UTF8 conversion issues 9
Mon 25 of Nov, 2013 14:52 EST Randy Added photos 8
Sun 28 of Nov, 2010 00:38 EST Randy Oops; forgot to close new table of addresses 7
Sun 28 of Nov, 2010 00:36 EST Randy Added more info from referenced sources 6
Sun 28 of Nov, 2010 00:03 EST Randy Completed pastor list with ClevelandChurchHistory blog entries 5
Sat 27 of Nov, 2010 23:58 EST Randy Added ClevelandChurchHistory blog which is looking fairly complete already 4
Sat 06 of Nov, 2010 15:16 EDT Randy Updated priest list and years based on 1907 marriage record; added parenthesis comment 3
Sat 30 of Oct, 2010 22:34 EDT Randy Initial version; trying to get more history and pastor list 2
Sat 30 of Oct, 2010 21:20 EDT system created from structure 1