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While pouring over my wife's family records, I noticed that many of her ancestors are buried in St. John's Greek Catholic Cemetery in Hopwood, PA, also in the Ukrainian Catholic Church Cemetery in Millville, NJ. I suppose many parishes have (or had) their own cemeteries. The one in Hopwood is not adjacent to a church as far as I know, since St. John the Baptist Church is down the road in Uniontown.
I am wondering about the location of other Greek Catholic cemeteries in the U.S. Any leads, sources known by our members here?
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Jim, the Stamford Eparchy has a large cemetery (about 300 acres as I recall), Holy Spirit Cemetery in Orange County (New York).
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Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Hamptonburg, N.Y. St Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery Altoona, Blair County, PA St. Michaels Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Glastonbury, CT St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church Cemetery, Smithmill PA (There seems an attempt to have logged those buried there online: http://members.tripod.com/warholic/ramey.htm ) STS PETER & PAUL UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY, 7700 Hoertz Road, Parma, Ohio St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery..... Belfield, North Dakota(Interesting side note, North Dakota also has a cemetery called Gladstone Non-Catholic Cemetery ) Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, King of Prussia, PA St. Mary�s Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Marion Heights, PA St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, North Versailles Twp, PA Sts. Cyril and Methodios Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery (It lists GPS coordinates, but all I can get from website Briar Creek Twp, which may be in PA) And many, many more: just google on "Ukrainian Catholic Cemeteries" to get about 300 hits (many are repetitions, some from obits, etc. The above were culled from looking at @30 entries. Gaudior, always glad to find an excuse to do something other than work
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SLAVA ISUSU CHRISTU!
St. John the Baptist Cemetary sits behind St. Joseph's Roman Catholic (Polish) cemetary.
They both sit off of a side road where the SUNPORCH DINER is off of US 40.
Uniontown is another 3 miles down the road.
Hope this helps...
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Oh, I also forgot that before St. John's was founded, there were many people who were buried in St.Mary's Roman Catholic (Slovak) cemetary.
You know which ones because of the 3-bar crosses...
Hope this helps...
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Originally posted by Gaudior:
Sts. Cyril and Methodios Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery (It lists GPS coordinates, but all I can get from website Briar Creek Twp, which may be in PA).
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Gaudior, always glad to find an excuse to do something other than work Briar Creek is indeed in PA, a bit to the west/southwest of Wilkes-Barre, on the Susquehanna. There are a multitude of covered bridges in the area, as well as a lovely old stone meeting house, which I believe is Methodist. Many years, Neil, always glad of an excuse to offer potentially interesting, but inherently useless information  and happy to recommend Columbia County and the Wyoming Valley of PA to vacationers, 'cause he thinks it's a lovely area.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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I should think that vast majority of parishes organized before 1960 each has its own cemetery. That would mean roughly 300 cemeteries for the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church alone. I can think of about a dozen parishes in Northeastern Pennsylvania who each have a least one cemetery. Some have two, the original one and a newer one because the original one was filled. In Scranton on Cemetery Avenue (where did they get that name?) at least 7 parishes have cemeteries that are adjacent to one another. St. Mary�s Byzantine Catholic Church, St. Vladimir�s Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Russian Orthodox Cemetery (which does not seem to belong to any parish), St. Joseph�s Roman Catholic Church, an Italian-American cemetery, and St. Stanislaus Polish National Catholic Church all have adjacent cemeteries. Newer parishes (like Epiphany of our Lord here in Annandale, Virginia, seem to prefer just having a section in a large public cemetery).
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One advantage of a church-owned cemetery over a publicly owned cemetery is that the church-owned cemetery can actually be consecrated, while the grave in the public cemetery can only receive a simple blessing.
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Another advantage is that at a church cemetary, you can PLANT LIVE FLOWERS and have vigil lamps, headstones that "mean" something instead of some bronze plaque that is generic....
JMHO....
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The parish cemetery for St. Mary Assumption Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church in Joliet, Illinois is Mt. Calvary Cemetery, located about five or so miles from the church (can't tell you how many Saturday afternoons during this ol' Rusyn's youth were spent mowing the lawn up there! ) St. Mary Assumption (founded in 1915) became one of the "feeder" churches for what is now Annunciation of the Mother of God parish in Homer Glen, Illinois, a parish familiar to many on this board. Interesting note... when the old church was sold, two of the onion domes from its roof were removed and re-installed at the gates to the cemetery. You can see it here... http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...&CScn=Mount+Calvary&CSst=16& ...kind of impressive, I think! a pilgrim
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If you have Microsoft Streets and Trips you can zoom in on the city and they point out cemetaries such as Berwick Pa, and you will see it says Greek Catholic Cemetary and Russian Orthodox Cemetary.
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Several years ago while exploring St Mary's Cemetery in Evergreen Park, a suburb of Chicago, I was surprised to find that the originally German RC cemetery (Sankt Marie in the 19th century) had a Melkite section dating back to around the time of WW1.
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St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Spangler, PA (or Northern Cambria, PA). It even has its own cemetery chapel.
I remember hearing how *some* Latins refused to bury priests' wives in consecrated ground, so parishes began to purchase properties for their own cemeteries. There was, I believe, a journal article that addressed this problem of the past. Priests wives were considered mistresses or whores. Does anyone have comments on this?
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