Christianity in North Carolina

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Churches in North Carolina, Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, Belmont Abbey College, James Gibbons, Sacred Heart Cathedral (Raleigh, North Carolina), St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church, Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina, Basilica of St. Lawrence, Asheville, Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Charlotte, Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, Latter Rain, St. Mary Catholic Church (Wilmington, North Carolina), Southeastern District, Sacred Heart Catholic Church (Salisbury, North Carolina), Vincent Stanislaus Waters, Cardinal Gibbons High School (Raleigh, North Carolina), Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church (Raleigh, North Carolina), Michael Joseph Begley, Michael Francis Burbidge, St. Thomas More Academy, North Carolina Baptist Assembly, Eugene J. McGuinness, F. Joseph Gossman, Hatch Auditorium, Ignatius A. Reynolds, Belmont Abbey, North Carolina, William Joseph Hafey, Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, Henry P. Northrop, Saint Elizabeth of the Hill Country Catholic Church, St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church (Cary, North Carolina), Leo Michael Haid, Peter Joseph Jugis, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church (Greensboro, North Carolina), Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the South, John Francis Donoghue, Webster Baptist Church (Webster, North Carolina), North Carolina Annual Conference, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in North Carolina, Western North Carolina Annual Conference, Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, Central Yearly Meeting of Friends, Church of the Immaculate Conception (Halifax, North Carolina), St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church (New Bern, North Carolina), St. Philip's Roman Catholic Church (Statesville, North Carolina), Church of the Saviour and Cemetery, Grace Union Church and Cemetery, Everetts Church of Christ, Church of the Resurrection (Little Switzerland, North Carolina), Wadsworth Congregational Church. Excerpt: The Diocese of Raleigh is a Roman Catholic diocese that covers the eastern half of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The bishop is seated at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, was established on December 12, 1924, by Pope Pius XI. Before this, North Carolina was an Apostolic Vicariate under the ecclesiastical authority of Bishop Leo Haid, O.S.B., who was both abbot of Belmont Abbey and Vicar Apostle of North Carolina. The Holy See offered in 1910 to establish in Wilmington a diocese for North Carolina with St. Mary Catholic Church as the cathedral, but Haid refused to relocate to the coast, a move necessary if the diocese was to be established there. North Carolina remained an Apostolic Vicariate until 1924, when Bishop Haid died. Pius XI erected the Diocese of Raleigh and assigned a secular priest as its bishop. The diocese, covering nearly 46, 000 miles and holding 8, 254 Catholics, comprised all of North Carolina except eight counties which had been given to Belmont Abbey in 1910 as the abbey's own diocese, the "Abbey Nullius". Within the diocese there were twenty-four churches with permanent pastors, forty mission churches cared for by priests of the parishes, and other "stations, " where church structures did not exist but priests came to celebrate the Sacraments. The diocese had twenty-three diocesan priests, twenty-eight priests in religious orders, and 127 religious sisters. William J. Hafey, a thirty-seven year old pr...