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Does anyone recall the name of the Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church which was on West 44th St.in Cleveland?My mother lived on that street from about 1982 until her deeath in 1996,but the location of the church was a few houses away from her house.The parish was long gone by then,only a vacant lot where the church once stood.I myself was pastor of what was orinally the first Romanian Orthodox Church in the US in Cleveland from 1983-90;but the congregation was Russian,the building had been purchased from the Romanians about 1956.St.Helena Romanian Byzantine Catholic Church was just around the block from us on West 65th St. I have a jubilee book from 1949 of the Pittsburgh diocese. Although it doesn't say what street it was on, it was named St. Michael's. The Rev. John Gernat was the pastor. Here is the quote from the book: Founded August 7, 1925, by a group of thirty four Hungarian families with the Rev. Basil Beretz as first pastor. The present building was purchased in October, 1925 and was rededicated the following month.
Approximate value of property $50,000. Population 206 souls. P.S. The parish on Detroit Avenue where you were is now a "theater" with the Iconostas still intact.  At least it was, about two years ago when the local newspaper had a story about it.
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After reading Irish Melkites post, I see that the address was 4505 Bridge Avenue. I remember my father telling me that when he moved to Cleveland, a priest referred him to that parish, not realizing that the Lakewood Greek Catholic parish was two streets away from where he was living! 
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Does anyone recall the name of the Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church which was on West 44th St.in Cleveland?My mother lived on that street from about 1982 until her deeath in 1996,but the location of the church was a few houses away from her house.The parish was long gone by then,only a vacant lot where the church once stood.I myself was pastor of what was orinally the first Romanian Orthodox Church in the US in Cleveland from 1983-90;but the congregation was Russian,the building had been purchased from the Romanians about 1956.St.Helena Romanian Byzantine Catholic Church was just around the block from us on West 65th St. I have a jubilee book from 1949 of the Pittsburgh diocese. Although it doesn't say what street it was on, it was named St. Michael's. The Rev. John Gernat was the pastor. Here is the quote from the book: Founded August 7, 1925, by a group of thirty four Hungarian families with the Rev. Basil Beretz as first pastor. The present building was purchased in October, 1925 and was rededicated the following month.
Approximate value of property $50,000. Population 206 souls. P.S. The parish on Detroit Avenue where you were is now a "theater" with the Iconostas still intact. At least it was, about two years ago when the local newspaper had a story about it. FR. Gernat was from my home parish. My father said that he came from a Magyarized Rusyn family. Since my Dido also spoke Hungarian as well as Rusyn, they used to visit with the Gernat family often. Ung
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It is possible that there was another church on West 44th St.,I DO remember someone speaking about it,either someone from the Slovak class I was then taking at John Carroll University or possibly from a visitor,a Hungarian who used to come around.He claimed his family was from that Northern part of Transylvania which borders what became the Rusyn area of Czechoslovakia between the two world wars.He said his family was Byzantine Catholic and multilingual and that they switched to the Romanian Byzantine Church after the Hungarian parish closed.I also remember a Slovak man saying that his father had been a cantor in one Hungarian Byzantine Church,but whether or not it was in Cleveland,I can't recall.His father would have been living in an era when all Slovaks and Rusyns(at least in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary) would have recieved their education in Hungarian.
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Once a month St. Steven Roman Catholic in Toledo Ohio has a Magyar mass.
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