St. Louis, Missouri is a city with a deep-rooted history, and many renowned figures and leaders have been connected to its churches throughout the years. From the early days of the parish of Saint Louis, fondly known as the “Old Cathedral”, to the present day, many significant events have taken place in the city's churches. The Old Cathedral was the only church of any denomination for local settlers until around 1816. It was here that Bishop DuBourg met with parishioners and received a promise to construct a new church.
Possible collaborators included well-known names such as Chouteau, Soulard, Papin, Cabanne, Gratiot, Mullanphy, Thomas H. Benton, William Carr, William Clark and Frederick Bates. On March 29th, the bishop laid the first stone of the church plaza on Second and Market Streets. Sacagawea's son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, was also baptized in the 1776 log church that once stood near the current site of the Old Cathedral. The Catholic Church of 1805 had a feeble grip on the city of St.
Louis and left behind a legacy of great dreams and many beginnings. The Old Cathedral has also been home to many prominent pastors who have been elected as bishops in several episcopal districts of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. One such pastor was Jordan Winston Early, a member of the Southern Methodist Church who left that group in 1832 to associate with the A. M. E Church. The Old Cathedral has also been associated with two religious and anti-slavery newspapers: The St.
Louis Observer and The Alton Observer. In 1912, dishes were made for these newspapers at the church and taken to a printing press owned by the church before being returned in a wheelbarrow. The history of St. Louis is full of remarkable figures and leaders who have shaped this place and left their marks in tangible ways. From martyrs to radical historians in the 1960s, these figures have forever solidified the place of the Old Cathedral among the most important in our community from a historical standpoint.
St. Louis, Missouri ni mji wenye historia yenye mizizi ya kina, na watu wengi mashuhuri na viongozi wamehusishwa na makanisa yake kwa miaka mingi. Tangu siku za mwanzo za parokia ya Saint Louis, inayojulikana kwa upendo kama <unk> Old Cathedral<unk>, hadi leo, matukio mengi muhimu yametokea katika makanisa ya jiji. Kanisa la Old Cathedral lilikuwa kanisa pekee la madhehebu yoyote kwa wahamiaji wa ndani hadi karibu 1816. Huko ndiko Askofu DuBourg alipokutana na washiriki wa parokia na kupokea ahadi ya kujenga kanisa jipya. Wafanyikazi wa uwezekano walijumuisha majina maarufu kama vile Chouteau, Soulard, Papin, Cabanne, Gratiot, Mullanphy, Thomas H. Benton, William Carr, William Clark na Frederick Bates. Mnamo tarehe 29 Machi, askofu aliweka jiwe la kwanza la ujenzi wa kanisa la kanisa la Second Street na Market Street. Mwana wa Sacagawea, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, pia alibatizwa katika kanisa la 1776 la mbao ambalo wakati mmoja lilisimama karibu na tovuti ya sasa ya Kanisa Kuu la Kale. Kanisa Katoliki la mwaka 1805 lilikuwa na udhibiti dhaifu juu ya mji wa St. Louis na liliacha nyuma urithi wa ndoto kubwa na mwanzo mwingi. Kanisa la Old Cathedral pia limekuwa makao ya wachungaji wengi mashuhuri ambao wamechaguliwa kama maaskofu katika wilaya kadhaa za maaskofu wa Kanisa la African Methodist Episcopal. Jordan Winston Early, aliyekuwa mshiriki wa Kanisa la Methodist la Kusini, alijiunga na Kanisa la A.M.E. Kanisa Kuu la Kale pia limehusishwa na magazeti mawili ya kidini na ya kupinga utumwa: The St. Louis Observer na The Alton Observer. Mwaka 1912 vyombo vilitengenezwa kwa ajili ya magazeti hayo na kupelekwa kwenye kiwanda cha kuchapisha kilichokuwa cha kanisa kabla ya kurudishwa kwa mkokoteni. Historia ya St. Louis imejaa takwimu za ajabu na viongozi ambao wameunda mahali hapa na kuacha alama zao kwa njia dhahiri. Kutoka kwa wafia imani hadi wanahistoria wa kihafidhina katika miaka ya 1960, takwimu hizi zimethibitisha milele nafasi ya Kanisa Kuu la Kale kati ya muhimu zaidi katika jamii yetu kutoka kwa mtazamo wa kihistoria.