Record #:

22840

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

There were Catholic congregations in Washington, NC as early as 1824 and even earlier in New Bern. The earliest reference to Catholics in Greenville goes back to 1828. A Catholic priest preached to a large audience in the Greenville Academy in 1829. Some of the early Catholic families in Greenville included the Dr. Jesse Randolph family and the Thomas Hanrahan's family. In 1868, Bishop James Gibbons (later Cardinal) came through Greenville and preached at the Greenville Methodist Church. Some of the Catholics in Greenville after 1870 include the Dr. Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse family, the Foley family, the Latham family, the Skinner family, and the Grimes family. As early as 1884, the first parish, St. Peter's, was established in Greenville and the old Episcopal Church was purchased and moved to Second Street. A new St. Peter's Catholic Church was built in 1927 on Second Street. St. Peter's dedicated a new church on March 31, 1991.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , May 1-14 1991, p8

Subject(s):

Churches--Greenville; Greenville--Churches; Catholic institutions--Greenville; St. Peter's Catholic Church (Greenville)