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St. Patrick Cathedral is the
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of the
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located in
Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Tarrant County, Texas, Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton County, Texas, Denton, Johnson County, Texas, Johnson, Parker County, Texas, Parker, and Wise County, Te ...
,
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. It is a parish of the Diocese of Fort Worth and the seat of its
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. Construction of St. Patrick's church began in 1888, and it was dedicated in 1892. It is listed along with nearby parish facilities on the
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as the St. Patrick Cathedral Complex with the church building, the rectory, and St. Ignatius Academy regarded as
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. The church and academy buildings are each recognized as
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s.


History

Starting in 1870, Father Vincent Perrier would visit the Catholics living in Fort Worth twice a year. They met in the Carrico family home. Fort Worth's first Catholic parish was St. Stanislaus. Its church building was a frame structure on Throckmorton Street. In 1879, Father Thomas Loughrey, who by that time had been assigned as the pastor of St. Stanislaus, started a school for boys. Classes were held in the church until 1907, when the frame structure was torn down. The present St. Patrick's church was built to the north of the old St. Stanislaus Church. The
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was laid in 1888, and the church was dedicated in 1892. James J. Kane designed it in the
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style. St. Patrick's was elevated to a
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in 1953 when
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changed the name of the Diocese of Dallas to the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth.
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divided the diocese and created the Diocese of Fort Worth on August 22, 1969. St. Patrick's was retained as the cathedral for the new diocese. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.


In popular culture

The interior of the cathedral was filmed for a scene in the 1990 comedy film, '' Problem Child''. File:St. Patrick's Church (20088522).jpg, 1913 postcard of the cathedral File:Saint Patricks Church and Parsonage (20107692).jpg, Undated postcard of the cathedral and rectory File:St. Patrick Cathedral interior - Fort Worth, Texas 01.jpg, View up the nave to the sanctuary File:St. Patrick Cathedral interior - Fort Worth, Texas 12.jpg, View down the nave to the gallery File:St. Patrick Rectory - Fort Worth, Texas.jpg, Rectory File:St. Ignatius Academy - Fort Worth, Texas.jpg, St. Ignatius Academy building File:St. Patrick Cathedral Pastoral Center - Fort Worth, Texas 01.jpg, Pastoral Center


See also

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List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States The Catholic Church in the United States comprises ecclesiastical territories called dioceses, eparchies, and ordinariates led by prelate Ordinary (church officer), ordinaries known as bishops. Each bishop is assigned to a cathedral from which ...
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List of cathedrals in the United States This is a list of cathedrals in the United States, including both actual cathedrals (seats of bishops in Episcopal polity, episcopal Christian groups, such as Catholic Church, Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy an ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Tarrant County, Texas. T ...
* Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Tarrant County


References


External links


Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth Official Site
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