History of the Catholic Church in the United States British-America-born Catholic priest. In 1788, after the Revolution, John Jay urged the New York Legislature to require office-holders to renounce foreign authorities "in all matters ecclesiastical as well as civil." In one state, North Carolina, the Protestant test oath would not be changed until 1868. The Catholic population of the United States, which had been 35,000 in 1790, increased to 195,000 in 1820 and then ballooned to about 1.6 million in 1850, by which time, Catholics had become the country’s largest denomination. Between 1860 and 1890 the population of Roman Catholics in the United States tripled primarily through immigration and
Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States of America and Canada Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States of America and Canada Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States of America and Canada () is located in Glendale, California, United States and is immediately subject to the Holy See. It was created by John Paul II on July 3, 1981 as the Apostolic Exarchate of United States of America and Canada for the Armenians. It was elevated to an eparchy on September 12, 2005. The seat of the eparchy is St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Glendale, California. The eparchy has