St. Donato Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia)

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St. Donato Roman Catholic Church
St. Donato Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia)
39°58′10″N75°14′57″W / 39.9695°N 75.2491°W / 39.9695; -75.2491
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
CountryUnited States
Denomination Catholic
Weekly attendance1,300
Website http://www.parishesonline.com/Scripts/HostedSites/Org.asp?ID=7103
Administration
Archdiocese Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Parish Personal (Italian) Parish

St. Donato Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1910, is a Catholic parish in Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The parish is still a Personal (Italian) Parish within the archdiocese. The pastor was the late Rev. Ferdinand Buccafurni. About 650 families are registered, with the total congregation numbering around 1,300.The church has since closed down in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Attached to the parish are a school and convent. St. Donato School enrolls 249 children. It is staffed by one Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart and 16 lay faculty. The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart convent was established by Mother Cabrini while she was based in Philadelphia.

History

St. Donato drew its name from the town of San Donato Val di Comino, Italy, from which many of the residents of the Overbrook-Haddington area had immigrated. The parish celebrates the feast of St. Donato and of St. Frances X. Cabrini on the first Sunday of June. The celebration opens the annual carnival and the feast of Mother Cabrini was added to the celebration of St. Donato because she personally established the school and worshipped in the lower Church, and her Sisters remain active with the parish.

In 2013 the Archdiocese announced that the St. Donato congregation was merging into Our Lady of Lourdes Church. [1] Members of the community unsuccessfully petitioned for the congregation to remain open. [2] St. Donato, as of 2013, is to be used periodically for church services. [3] Our Lady of Lourdes has the parish records. [4]

Education

St. Donato had its own parish school. [5] Later the designated school was St. Frances Cabrini Regional School, [6] Established in 2012 by the merger of Our Lady of Blessed Sacrement and St. Donato. [7] The Cabrini school remained in operation after the end of the congregation. [3]

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