On July 19, 1850, the Diocese of Wheeling was established by Pope Pius IX, marking the adventurous beginning of the present Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. The diocese is celebrating the milestone from July 19, 2025, through July of 2026, to reflect on how it began and how it has prevailed ...
WHEELING — The first bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling, Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan, was a shining example of how to guard your faith, just as St. Paul wrote to his friend Timothy (2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14). It is a bishop’s duty as a successor of the Apostles to shepherd his flock — to ...
Editor’s note: The following article honoring the 175th anniversary of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston is written referencing a dissertation of Fr. James Francis Tierney’s “Biographical Notices of The Earliest Wheeling Priests,” when he was at St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, and ...
WHEELING — Catholic education in West Virginia began four years before the diocese was founded in 1850 as schools were established to serve the growing Catholic immigrant population. Nine schools were established during the tenure of the Diocese of Wheeling’s first shepherd, Bishop ...
PARKERSBURG — Parkersburg Catholic Schools is moving forward with a long-discussed plan to bring its elementary, middle and high school students together on a single campus. “It’s going to make this campus a unified campus from preschool all the way up to 12th grade,” Bishop Mark E. ...
SWEET SPRINGS — Faith and history are still celebrated in Sweet Springs. Each summer on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, faithful Catholics and visitors to Monroe County get together to honor Mary and local history, and pay tribute to the pioneering priests, religious figures and ...
