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Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth

It is the mother church of the Portsmouth diocese and seat of the Bishop of Portsmouth, currently the Right Reverend Philip Egan.

Fraternité Notre-Dame

In 2000, The movement opened its Mother House for North America in Chicago's Austin neighborhood in the former Gammon United Methodist Church, a structure built by noted Cleveland architect Sidney Badgley and featured in a number of books on Chicago architecture, notably "The AIA Guide to Chicago" by Alice Sinkevitch (Harvest Books 2004).

Roman Catholic Diocese of Caroline Islands

The Diocese of Caroline Islands is led by a bishop who pastors the mother church, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Juneau

It is led by a prelate bishop which serves as pastor of the mother church, Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the City of Juneau.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Shanghai

The diocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its bishop is St. Ignatius Cathedral; it also houses a minor basilica in Sheshan.


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Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church

The Przechówko church in West Prussia, the mother church of Alexanderwohl, was composed of Mennonites who settled near Schwetz and Culm on the Vistula River.

Armenian Church of the Holy Nazareth

The Armenian Church of the Holy Nazareth is an Armenian Apostolic church that is located in the northwest corner of Barabazar in the Greater Kolkata area, and is called "Mother Church of the Indian Armenians".

Athanasios Angelopoulos

He has been honoured with the title of the Archon Actuary of the Holy in Christ Great Mother Church, by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople; the award of the Academy of Athens, in 1980; and with awards and prizes from churches, states and institutes.

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis

Completed in 1914, it is the mother church of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and the seat of its archbishop, currently Robert James Carlson.

Colman of Templeshambo

He was a contemporary of Saint Aidan, who appointed him Abbot of Templeshambo, the mother church of Enniscorthy.

Coptic Orthodox Church in Africa

In 1984 a Coptic cross was given as a gift by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and mounted on the top of the All Africa Conference of Churches building as the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is considered to be the Mother church in Africa.

County Cavan

The Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Felim in Cavan town, is the seat of the Bishop of Kilmore and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kilmore.

Denver Heights COGIC

Denver Heights COGIC, also known as The Mother Church, is a Pentecostal in San Antonio, Texas.

Drybridge

Shewalton had a 'Mission Station' in 1837, probably at Drybridge and the mother church was Dundonald.

Gesu Church

It may refer to an English translation of any of the churches at Church of the Gesu (disambiguation), most notably the Church of the Gesù, in Rome, the baroque mother church of the Jesuit Order.

Holy Innocents' Orthodox Church

This is the mother church of all other churches in Mezhuveli-Kidangannoor.

Kümbdchen

Kümbdchen belonged to the old mother church in Simmern and later passed along with Simmern to the Raugraves at the Altenbaumburg (castle, now in ruins, in today’s Ortsgemeinde of Altenbamberg near Bad Kreuznach), in whose ownership it remained until they sold the town of Simmern to the Counts Palatine in 1359.

Liberty, North Carolina

Liberty is home to the mother church of the Southern Baptist Religion (Sandy Creek Baptist Church), World Skeet Shoot Champion Craig Kirkman, and is the birthplace of professional baseball player Joe Frazier.

Lyndon Station, Wisconsin

It is one of the oldest parishes in the Diocese of La Crosse and because of this it is historically referred to as the Mother Church of the Dells Area.

Mendhausen

In Mendhausen was the first church, it was the mother church of Römhild until 1405.

Old Rome, South Ayrshire

The hamlet had a 'Mission Station' in 1837, the mother church being Dundonald.

Ole Peter Petersen

Washington Prairie Norwegian Methodist Church located outside Decorah, Iowa is considered the mother church of Norwegian-American Methodism.