Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Transfiguration of Our Lord, Upper Sandusky

It was St. Peter's when this postcard was made, sometime between 1905 and 1915.

8 comments:

Kyle Gase said...

Looks pretty much the same today.

Anonymous said...

Beyond what might be considered obvious (changing exterior signs, bulletins, stationary) does changing the name of a catholic church involve a lot of work? Is there a process with Rome that is required?

Kyle Gase said...

What happened in my parish:

-Frenchtown St. Nicholas, New Riegel St. Boniface, and Alvada St. Peter parishes were closed

-All Saints Parish was established

-St. Boniface Church (only because it was by far the largest building of the three) was re-named All Saints Church. There was no rededication ceremony or anything like that. No process with Rome that I am aware of.

Even though the sign out front says All Saints Church, inside it's pretty obvious that it used to be dedicated to St. Boniface. Lots of plaques with the St. Boniface Parish name still hang on the wall not the mention the huge mural of St. Boniface on the ceiling and his statue in the sanctuary.

Kyle Gase said...

There are quite a few church buildings in the diocese which have undergone name changes. They are:

-Toledo St. Ann became St. Martin de Porres

-Attica SS Peter & Paul became Our Lady of Hope

-Upper Sandusky St. Peter became Transfiguration of the Lord

-New Riegel St. Boniface became All Saints

-Marywood St. Michael became St. Gaspar del Bufalo

-The Bend St. Stephen AND Marysdale Immaculate Conception both became churches for St. Isidore of Defiance County

Anonymous said...

Canon law appears to suggest that the name of a church can't be changed:

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P4H.HTM

(No. 1218)

But maybe a bishop can overrule that? Or maybe "title" means something different in that context?

Jeffrey Smith said...

I'd suspect that's dealt with in procedures covered elsewhere. I'll have to look into it.
Since we're Catholics, of course, we obey the Church's teaching on the authority of bishops.

Kyle Gase said...

Interesting.

Fr. Ron's original plan for All Saints Parish was to have 3 chapels (St. Nicholas Chapel, St. Boniface Chapel, and St. Peter Chapel) that make up 1 parish. However, the bishop pretty much said that we need to have a parish church and decided that the New Riegel building would be it. On July 1, 2005 St. Boniface Church became the new All Saints Church. there may have been a private re-dedication that I didn't know about, but as far as I know the building is officially "All Saints Catholic Church."

Jeffrey Smith said...

If the bishop said it is, it is, period.