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St. Mary Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in Greensboro, North Carolina which originally served as the Catholic parish and school for African-American Catholics in Greensboro prior to Desegregation. == History == St. Benedict's Church was the first Catholic church in Greensboro, founded in 1877. To accommodate the increasing number of African-American converts to Roman Catholicism, a new mission church - Saint Mary Catholic Church - and school were built. The Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, who at the time staffed the St. Leos' Hospital in Greensboro, provided staff for the school. The first Mass was celebrated at St. Mary's on September 16, 1928.〔http://www.stmarysgreensboro.org/history.htm〕 The school was closed in 1972. When the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh was divided and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte was created, St. Mary's fell under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Charlotte. In October of 1973 St. Mary's Church officially changed from its traditional role as a black parish into an integrated territorial parish.〔http://catholicnewsherald.com/features/53-news/roknewspager-local?start=1530〕 In the 1970s many refugees from Asia and Africa began arriving in Greensboro and many joined the parish. Currently one-third of the parishioners at St. Mary's are African-American, one-third are White, and one-third are exiles from civil wars in Asia and Africa.〔http://www.news-record.com/news/columnists/at-st-mary-s-catholic-with-a-lower-case-c/article_f51803be-6c18-56e7-818c-1eec25f985fe.html〕 In the early 2000s a new church building for St. Mary's was built off of East Lee Street. Both the original church building and new building are used for celebrations of Mass. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Mary Catholic Church (Greensboro, North Carolina)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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