History: St Vitus Catholic Church

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Saint Vitus Catholic Church

in Cleveland, Ohio, USA from 1893 to present.



Parish started in Aug 1893 by about 100 Slovenes. First building at current site of E. 61st St. and Lausche Ave (was Glass Ave) in Nov 1894; one block off of St Clair Avenue. Existing building finished in 1932 with project initiated and overseen by Rev Bartholomew Ponikvar.

Priests and Pastors

Priests performing ceremonies such as weddings, are (Pastor listed first):
1893-1907 Rev. Vitus Hribar
1907-1952 Rev. Bartholomew J Ponikvar
1952-1969 Msgr. Louis Baznik
1969-1975 Rev. Rudolph Praznik
1975-1982 Most Rev. A. Edward Pevec
1982-current Rev. Jožef Božnar


See Also

St Lawrence Catholic Church

St Vitus Parish Website
St Vitus in Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Slovenes in Cleveland in Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
St Vitus in Wikipedia
Cleveland Church History Blog

History

Information Version
Mon 25 of Jun, 2018 17:34 EDT Randy 10
Sun 21 of Jan, 2018 21:01 EST Randy Fix UTF8 conversion issues 9
Sun 28 of Nov, 2010 00:42 EST Randy Added ClevelandChurchHistory link that is more complete 8
Sun 28 of Nov, 2010 00:41 EST Randy Cleaned up some dates and names in Pastor list 7
Sat 06 of Nov, 2010 15:18 EDT Randy Cleaned up sentence on current building 6
Sun 31 of Oct, 2010 02:00 EDT Randy Fixed Rev Boznar's first name 5
Sun 31 of Oct, 2010 01:54 EDT Randy Completed parish priest list as taken from Wikipedia (work to date was proper subset) 4
Sat 30 of Oct, 2010 22:35 EDT Randy Another date for Louis Baznik to determine his reigh 3
Sat 30 of Oct, 2010 21:48 EDT Randy Initial page to capture pastors so wedding certificates can be used to determine wedding location 2
Sat 30 of Oct, 2010 21:21 EDT system created from structure 1

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