Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral (West Roxbury, Massachusetts)
| Our Lady of the Annunciation Melkite Greek Catholic Cathedral |
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| 42°17′51.03″N 71°8′3.7″W / 42.2975083°N 71.134361°WCoordinates: 42°17′51.03″N 71°8′3.7″W / 42.2975083°N 71.134361°W | |
| Location | West Roxbury, Massachusetts |
| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Melkite Greek Catholic Church |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Founded | 1908 (parish) |
| Dedication | Annunciation |
| Dedicated | April 24, 1966 |
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| Status | Cathedral/Parish |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architect(s) | Lawrence J. Cuneo |
| Years built | 1964-1966 |
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| Diocese | Eparchy of Newton |
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| Bishop(s) | Most Rev. Nicholas Samra |
| Rector | Rt. Rev. Philip Raczka |
Our Lady of the Annunciation Melkite Greek Catholic Cathedral in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is a modern cathedral inspired by Byzantine architecture. It is the principal church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton, which encompasses the entire United States, the seat of its hierarch, currently Bishop Nicholas Samra, and the parish church of the Melkite Greek Catholic community in Greater Boston. Its present structure and its status as a cathedral date to 1966; previous to that, Our Lady of the Annunciation Melkite Catholic Church was a parish church in the South End of Boston.
In the 1890s, Christians from Syria and the Levant (now Lebanon) emigrated to the United States in search of better economic opportunities and to escape Ottoman rule in their homelands. Among the immigrants were Melkite Greek Catholics. Boston was among the northeastern cities in which the Melkites settled, attracted to it by opportunities in the city's garment district.
The majority of the Melkite immigrants to Boston, and elsewhere in eastern Massachusetts, hailed from in and around Zahlé in the Levant. As was typical in that era, they were soon joined by a priest dispatched from the region in which they originated. Thus, Father Joseph Simon, a hieromonk of the Basilian Salvatorian Order (BSO), which had responsibility for many of the parishes in Zahle, arrived in 1896. However, he remained only briefly in Boston, moving on to settle in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where the Melkites were more populous than in Boston.
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