Good Shepherd Church

ID: 1108

This file appears in: Catholic Pioneers

Kentucky’s Catholic churches possess some of the state’s most beautiful architecture. Shown here is Good Shepherd Catholic church in Frankfort. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Catholic Pioneers

Catholic Pioneers

By Tim Talbott

Historical Marker #913 in Marion County notes the location of the first Catholic church west of the Allegheny Mountains. Kentucky’s earliest settlers came from the states of the mid-Atlantic region. While Virginia, Kentucky’s mother state,…