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  • FIRST Catholic Church OHIO
  • ST JOSEPHS Catholic Church; SOMERSET OHIO
  • ST JOSEPH'S Catholic Church; SOMERSET OHIO
The First Catholic Church in Ohio
By 1818 Ohio was home to some 3,000 Catholics, without a single priest to minister to them. Jacob Dittoe, a German-Catholic who had petitioned the bishop to send a Catholic priest to his community, built the log cabin church once Fr. Fenwick arrived.
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