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List Of Church Closings

POSTED: 1:26 pm EDT May 25, 2004
UPDATED: 6:02 pm EDT May 25, 2004

The following is the list of church closings announced by the Boston Archdiocese Tuesday:

  • Parish Closing: Arlington, St. James
  • Closing: Arlington, St. Jerome
  • Closing: Bellingham, Assumption
  • Closing: Belmont, Our Lady of Mercy
  • Closing: Beverly, St. Alphonsus
  • Closing: Beverly, St. Margaret
  • Closing: Boston, Holy Trinity (closing on 6/30/05)
  • Closing: Boston, St. Ann University Parish
  • Closing, church to stay open as a worship space: Boston, Sacred Heart in the North End
  • Closing: Brighton, Our Lady of the Presentation
  • Closing: Brockton, St. Margaret
  • Parishes to merge and form a new parish: Brockton, Sacred Heart and St. Colman of Cloyne
  • Closing: Brookline, Infant Jesus - St. Lawrence
  • Closing: Cambridge, Blessed Sacrament
  • Closing: Cambridge, Immaculate Conception, Lithuanian (closing at the end of the present pastorate)
  • Closing: Cambridge, Somerville - Immaculate Conception
  • Closing: Charlestown - St. Catherine of Siena
  • Closings with creation of a new parish: Concord, St. Bernard and Our Lady Help of Christian
  • Closing: Dedham, St. Susanna
  • Closing: Dorchester, Roxbury - St. Mary of the Angels
  • Parish closings with creation of a new parish: Dorchester - St. Williams and St. Margaret - both to close and form a new parish
  • Closing: East Boston - Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
  • Closing: East Boston - St. Mary Star of the Sea
  • Closing: Everett, St. Therese
  • Closing: Framingham, St. Jeremiah
  • Closing: Gloucester, Sacred Heart
  • Closing: Gloucester, St. Peter
  • Closing: Hyde Park - St. Adalbert (closing at the end of the present pastorate)
  • Closing: Hyde Park - St. Joseph
  • Closing: Jamaica Plain - Blessed Sacrament
  • Closing: Lexington, Sacred Heart
  • Parish closing, church to stay open as a worship space: Lincoln, St. Joseph
  • Closing: Lynn, St. Michael (effective 2006)
  • Closing: Malden, St. Peter
  • Closing, church to stay open as a worship space: Marlborough, St. Ann
  • Closing: Marlborough, St. Mary
  • Closing: Medford, Sacred Heart
  • Closing: Medford, St. James
  • Closing: Milton, St. Pius X
  • Closing: Natick, Sacred Heart
  • Closing: Newton, St. Bernard
  • Closing: Newton, Mary Immaculate of Lourdes
  • Closing: Norwood, St. George
  • Closing: Plymouth, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
  • Closing: Quincy, Star of the Sea
  • Parish closings with creation of a new parish: Quincy - Most Blessed Sacrament and St. Elizabeth - both to close to form a new parish
  • Closing: Revere, Our Lady of Lourdes
  • Parish closing, church to stay open as a worship space: Rochester, St. Rose of Lima
  • Closing: Rockport, St. Joachim (may stay open as a worship space)
  • Parish closings with creation of a new parish: Roxbury - St. Francis and St. Philip - both to close and form a new parish
  • Parish closings with creation of a new parish: Roxbury - St. John and St. Hugh - both to close and form a new parish
  • Closing: Salem, St. Joseph
  • Closing: Salem-Peabody, St. Thomas the Apostle
  • Closing: Situate, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini
  • Closing: South Boston - St. Augustine
  • Closing: South Boston - St. Peter
  • Closing: Stoughton, St. James
  • Parish Closing, church to stay open as a worship space: Stow, St. Isidore
  • Closing: Sudbury, St. Anselm
  • Closing: Wakefield, St. Florence
  • Closing: Waltham, St. Joseph
  • Closing: Watertown, Sacred Heart
  • Closing: Wellesley, St. James the Great
  • Closing: Weymouth, St. Albert the Great
  • Closing: Winchester, Immaculate Conception
  • Closing: Woburn, St. Joseph

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