St. Boniface Church | |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Carpenter Gothic |
Town or city | 375 SE Church St., Sublimity, Oregon |
Country | United States |
Construction started | 1889 |
Completed | 1889 |
Technical details | |
Structural system | Wood frame |
St. Boniface Church is a historic Roman Catholic church building in Sublimity, Oregon, United States built in 1889.
St. Boniface is construction in the Carpenter Gothic style of architecture, it is a massive six-bay wooden structure with lancet stained glass windows and a steep sloping roof. The cross-adorned steeple above its front entrance reaches to a height of 110 feet above the ground. A historic cemetery adjoins the church building on one side. [1]
The first Catholics came to Sublimity in the 1870s. They were German immigrant farmers who came by rail from states like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska. [2] Originally, services were held in private homes. The first priest, Fr. Peter Juvenal Stampfl, arrived in 1879. He made the first entry in St. Boniface's parish records on December 3, 1879. [3]
St. Boniface Church is still an active parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland. Fr. Paul Materu is the current pastor. [4]