Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone on the island of Grand Bahama of the northwest Bahamas. In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted 20,000 hectares of pineyard with substantial areas of swamp and scrubland by the Bahamian government with a mandate to economically develop the area. Freeport has grown to become the second most populous city in the Bahamas.
Merrick Road is an east–west urban arterial in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties in New York, United States. It is known as Merrick Boulevard or Floyd H. Flake Boulevard in Queens, within New York City.
The Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It encompasses the western part of the state of Oregon, from the summit of the Cascades to the Pacific Ocean. The Archbishop of Portland serves as the Ordinary of the archdiocese and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Portland whose suffragan dioceses cover the entire three states of Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. The dioceses of the province include Baker, Boise (Idaho), Helena, and Great Falls-Billings.
The Archdiocese of Miami is a particular church of the Catholic Church in the United States of America. Its ecclesiastic territory includes Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of Florida. The archdiocese is the metropolitan see for the Ecclesiastical Province of Miami, which covers Florida. The archbishop is Thomas Wenski. As archbishop, he also serves as pastor of the Cathedral of Saint Mary, the mother church of the archdiocese. Also serving are 258 priests, 133 permanent deacons, 41 religious brothers and 204 religious sisters who are members of various religious institutes. These priests, deacons and persons religious serve a Catholic population in South Florida of 475,774 in 109 parishes and missions.
The Catholic Church in Singapore is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
The Archdiocese of Edmonton is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese in the Canadian civil province of Alberta. The archbishop's cathedral see is located in St. Joseph Cathedral, a minor basilica in Edmonton. The Archdiocese of Edmonton is the metropolitan see of its ecclesiastical province, with also contains two suffragan dioceses: the Dioceses of Calgary and Saint Paul in Alberta.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface is a Latin archdiocese in part of the civil Province of Manitoba in Canada. Despite having no suffragan dioceses, the archdiocese is nominally metropolitan and is an ecclesiastical province by itself. It is currently led by Archbishop Albert LeGatt.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The archdiocese encompasses the islands of the former British dependency of the Bahamas. The archbishop is the metropolitan responsible for the suffragan diocese of Diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda and the Mission sui iuris of Turks and Caicos, and is a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference.
The Archdiocese of Singapore is an exempt archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church. Its territory includes all of Singapore. Its current archbishop is William Goh Seng Chye. Goh took over the Archdiocese on 18 May 2013, after Pope Francis accepted the resignation of his predecessor Nicholas Chia Yeck Joo. The Cathedral of the Good Shepherd is the cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Singapore.
Freeport Hebrew Congregation is the only synagogue in The Bahamas. The synagogue is named after Luis de Torres, identified by Meyer Kayserling's book Christopher Columbus and the participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese discoveries (1894) as a Marrano who sailed with Christopher Columbus at the beginning of the European colonization of the Americas. It is situated on East Sunrise Highway, between the Lutheran Church and the Roman Catholic "Mary Star of the Sea."
The Catholic Church in the Bahamas is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Columbus landed on one of the islands of the Bahamas in 1492 which he named San Salvador.
The St. William's Church also alternatively called Catholic Church of St. William is a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located on the island of Tortola in the Main Street of the village of Road Town capital of the British Virgin Islands, a territory of the United Kingdom in the Lesser Antilles.
The St. Ursula's Church is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the Catholic presbytery of the village of The Valley on the island of Virgin Gorda of the British Virgin Islands, a dependent territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean Sea or of the Antilles.
The St. Martin of Tours' Church is a religious building is located at 51 Voorstraat, Voorstraat, in the city of Philipsburg, Sint Maarten on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of St. Martin in the Lesser Antilles east of the Caribbean Sea or Sea The Antilles.
The Our Lady Queen of the Universe Church also called "Catholic Church of Our Lady Queen of the Universe" is a temple belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the town of Black Rock in St. Michael one of the administrative divisions of Barbados, in the Lesser Antilles.
The Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Joseph at Irkutsk. It is located at 11 Griboyedov St. in Irkutsk, in the region of Siberia in Russia. It is known for its organ concerts. In 1820 a Roman Catholic parish was founded in Irkutsk, which was then a growing city. Most parishioners were Poles, Lithuanians, or Belarusians, but membership included representatives of many of the Russian Empire's ethnic groups. A wooden church was later dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption, but burned down during the Great Fire of Irkutsk in 1879. A new Gothic church was consecrated in 1886. The parish was suppressed in Soviet times, during which the priests were arrested and sent to the camps.
The Queen of Peace Church also called Parish Queen of Peace, is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in the town and island of Ebeye part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands a country in Micronesia in Oceania.
