PARKERSBURG — Among the organizations illustrating the Roman Catholic legacy and benevolence in West Virginia is the Sisters Health Foundation. The foundation, among the most impactful and significant organizations promoting and supporting health and wellness programs, in 2025 awarded 116 ...
PARKERSBURG — The Parkersburg Vicariate of the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese includes the Catholic schools, parishes, missions and chapels in the region. Counties and cities in the vicariate are Wood, Wetzel, Tyler, Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Mason, Jackson, Roane and Calhoun counties and New ...
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 Richard ...