St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church

St. Wenceslaus Church
St. Wenceslaus Church, 2014.
St. Wenceslaus Church
Coordinates: 39°18′01″N 76°35′13″W / 39.300278°N 76.586944°W / 39.300278; -76.586944
Location	2111 Ashland Ave., Baltimore
Country	United States
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Website	St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church
History
Founded	November 1872 (1872-11)
Founder(s)	Bohemian immigrants
Dedication	St. Wenceslaus
Dedicated	()
Consecrated	()
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	For Bohemian immigrants
Architectural type	Church
Style	Italianate
Groundbreaking	1914 (1914)
Completed	1914 (1914)
Specifications
Materials	Granite

The Church of St. Wenceslaus is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore located in the Middle East neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.

History

St. Wenceslaus was founded in 1872 in a neighborhood of East Baltimore that was then known as Little Bohemia. The parish was created primarily to serve the Bohemian (Czech) community in Baltimore.^[1]^[2] Church services were originally held in both the English and Czech languages.^[3] The present church was built in 1914, and at that time the church had 7,000 Bohemian Catholic members. By 1920 the church was the fourth largest in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.

In recent years, the ethnic character of St. Wenceslaus parish has undergone a gradual change from a majority Czech parish to one that is multicultural and multiracial, first as many Poles and Lithuanians moved into the neighborhood, and then as the neighborhood shifted to having an African American majority.

St. Wenceslaus was founded and staffed by priests and lay brothers of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, known as the Redemptorists, until 1999. Since then, it has been administered by friars of the Franciscan Third Order Regular.

Architecture

The building's overall design is in the Italianate style.

References

↑ John Thomas Scharf, History of Baltimore City and County (1881) p 543
↑ "History". St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
↑ Tim Almaguer, Friends of Patterson Park Baltimore's Patterson Park (2006) p 81

External links

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St. Wenceslaus Lyceum, June 2014.

Ethnic history of Baltimore

Groups	African Americans Czechs French Germans Greeks Hispanics and Latinos Irish Italians Jews Koreans Lithuanians Native Americans Poles Russians Ukrainians

Ethnic enclaves	Chinatown Corned Beef Row French Town Greektown Koreatown Little Bohemia Little Italy Little Lithuania Little Poland Little Ukrainian Village Otterbein Spanish Town

Institutions	Baltimore American Indian Center Baltimore Hebrew University Bohemian National Cemetery Christ United Church of Christ Concordia Hall Grand Lodge Č.S.P.S. of Baltimore Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation Hebrew Orphan Asylum Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church Holy Rosary Church Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church Jewish Museum of Maryland Lithuanian Hall National Great Blacks In Wax Museum National Slavic Museum Oblate Sisters of Providence Otterbein Church Our Lady of Pompeii Church Polish Home Hall Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture Royal Theatre St. Alphonsus Church St. Casimir Church St. Elizabeth of Hungary St. Francis Xavier Church St. Leo's Church St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church St. Peter the Apostle Church Sts. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church St. Vincent de Paul Church St. Wenceslaus in Baltimore Transfiguration of our Lord Russian Orthodox Church Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Building Zion Lutheran Church

Events	Baltimore riot of 1968 2015 Baltimore protests

Media	Ethnic press in Baltimore (Baltimore Afro-American Baltimore Jewish Times Baltimore Wecker Latin Opinion Telegraf Where What When)

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore

Churches and parishes	Cathedral Cathedral of Mary Our Queen Co-cathedral: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish churches St. Alphonsus Holy Cross Holy Rosary St. Elizabeth of Hungary St. Leo St. Vincent de Paul St. Wenceslaus Our Lady of Pompeii Chapels and shrines National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Catholic education	Seminaries Mount St. Mary's Seminary St. Mary's Seminary Higher education Loyola University Maryland Mount St. Mary's University Notre Dame of Maryland University St. Mary's University High schools Archbishop Curley High School Archbishop Spalding High School Bishop Walsh School Calvert Hall College High School Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Institute of Notre Dame Loyola Blakefield Maryvale Preparatory School Mercy High School Mount de Sales Academy Mount Saint Joseph High School Notre Dame Preparatory School Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School St. Frances Academy St. John's Catholic Preparatory St. Maria Goretti High School St. Mary's High School The Catholic High School of Baltimore The John Carroll School The Seton Keough High School

Ordinaries	Past John Carroll, S.J. Leonard Neale, S.J. Ambrose Maréchal, P.S.S. James Whitfield Samuel Eccleston, P.S.S. Francis Patrick Kenrick Martin John Spalding James Roosevelt Bayley James Gibbons Michael Joseph Curley Francis Patrick Keough Lawrence Shehan William Donald Borders William Henry Keeler Edwin Frederick O'Brien Present William E. Lori (Auxiliaries: Mitchell T. Rozanski Denis J. Madden)

Miscellany	Plenary Councils of Baltimore The Catholic Review

Suffragan dioceses	Diocese of Arlington Diocese of Richmond Diocese of Wilmington Diocese of Wheeling–Charleston

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St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church

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