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expansion in Los Angeles County. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, established in 1936, created the parish to meet the spiritual needs of the San Fernando

leadership, the parish serves as a spiritual and community hub in the Tom Green Deanery, with a mission church, Holy Family Mission, in nearby Mereta. The parish

established as a diocese in 1939 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1947, created the parish to meet the spiritual needs of the Prince George’s County Deanery. Named

initiatives. As part of the Portage North region, formalized in 2022, the parish collaborates with neighboring parishes under the leadership of Rev. Frantisek

Masses were held in public buildings until the current church was dedicated in 1964. The parish joined the newly erected Diocese of Arlington in 1974. Growth

Established in 1942 to serve Catholics in the Falls Church area, the parish initially held Masses in local facilities before dedicating its church in 1953. As

under the title "Our Lady of the Valley"—a Marian invocation reflecting the parish's setting in the Shenandoah Valley—the church serves Catholics in Page

Lourdes Parish began in 1927 as a mission of St. Rita’s Parish in Alexandria under the Diocese of Richmond. Father Leonard Koster celebrated the first Mass

territorial parish in the Diocese of Arlington, located in Herndon, Virginia. Dedicated to Saint Joseph, the foster father of Jesus and patron of the Universal

care for the poor, and leadership in the Crusades—a canonized saint and patron of the Third Order of St. Francis—the parish emphasizes service to the needy

farmland purchased in 1941 by the Diocese of Richmond. The original church was dedicated in 1948; the current church was constructed in 2004. As of December

families in new housing developments near the Pentagon, the parish grew rapidly in the postwar era. A school was founded in 1949 by the Sisters of the Holy

territorial parish in the Diocese of Arlington, located in Culpeper, Virginia. Dedicated to the Precious Blood of Jesus—the blood shed by Christ in His Passion

Church is a territorial parish in the Diocese of Arlington, located in the Nauck neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia. Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary

beneath the high altar (excavated 1940s–1950s; bones identified in purple cloth). Relics in dome piers: Holy Lance (St. Longinus) Fragment of the True Cross

barred her from convents. In 1877, ordained a “missionary of the Sacred Heart” by Bishop Gelmini, she founded her order in 1880 in Codogno, Italy, despite

by Pope Pius XII in Vatican City, after a miracle—Healing of a nun from a tumor in the 1940s—was confirmed, allowing veneration in Canada. Canonized on

Baptism followed the next day in the local parish church, as recorded in diocesan registers, marking the beginning of a life steeped in Catholic tradition

established in 1924. The current Gothic Revival church was dedicated on December 18, 1949. Saint Rita School opened in 1952. The parish joined the Diocese

a tailor, as the youngest of three children in a deeply Catholic family. Baptized two days later in the Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin