Louis Cathedral (New Orleans, Louisiana) — Built in 1789, the St. Louis Cathedral is the oldest continuously active Roman Catholic cathedral in the United States.

Church Street Methodist Church of Selma, the city’s oldest church at 185 years old, this week sued the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church in an effort to keep control ...

Their website claims that it was the "first church in the United States to be lit by electricity" in 1886. But it might have been illuminated well before then, for Christmas 1879.

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said maybe now that he's pope, their old church will be reopened.