Country United States Website [1] Consecrated 1906 Archbishop Robert James Carlson | Denomination Roman Catholic Church Founded 1904 Opened 1906 Groundbreaking 1904 | |
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Location Blue Spring Lane
Lithium, Missouri Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Similar The Nativity of the Bless, St Rose of Lima Mission, St Boniface Roman C, St James Roman Catholic, St Maurus Roman Catholic | ||
St. John the Evangelist Church is a disused Catholic church in Lithium, Missouri.
History
The parish was originally established in 1904 as St. Theresa's. The first church and rectory were completed in 1906, and by the following year, it was serving as mission parish of Claryville, Missouri. In 1938, in deference to a donor who provided most of the money for the new church building, the parish was to be renamed St. John the Baptist. After the dedication of the new church that same year, a statue of the patron saint was commissioned by John Glennon, Archbishop of St. Louis. When it arrived and was uncrated, however, it recognized as St. John the Evangelist, and so it remained.
It was a mission parish of Claryville, then of Sereno, and by 1982, of Perryville. The church was closed in 1985 and its faith community invited to be part of Our Lady of Victory in Sereno.