Pittsburgh, Diocese of
The 1865 General Convention voted “that all that portion of the State of Pennsylvania lying west of the eastern lines of the counties of McKean, Cameron, Clearfield, Cambria, and Somerset . . . be separated from the Diocese of Pennsylvania, and formed into a new Diocese.” The primary convention of this new diocese met at Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, Nov. 15-16, 1865. The 1910 General Convention voted to divide the Diocese of Pittsburgh. The Diocese of Pittsburgh includes the following counties: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Somerset, Washington, and Westmoreland. On June 3, 1928, Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, was set apart as Trinity Cathedral.
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