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Lebanon is home to wide variety of denominations within Marion County. Almost every branch is represented among 33 churches, including:
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- A.M.E.
- Baptist
- C.M.E.
- Catholic
- Christian
- Church of Christ
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Jehovah's Witness
- Methodist
- Pentecostal
- Presbyterian
 
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The Loretto Motherhouse was home to the first religious community of women in the United States. Founded in 1812 by the Rev. Charles Nerinx, the original mission of the Motherhouse was to educate frontier youth; later, it became a Novitiate for women entering the sisterhood. Today, the Loretto Motherhouse is a home and retreat center for the Lorettine sisters. Original sculptures and artwork are on display at the Rhodes Hall Gallery.
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In the community of Holy Cross, just north of Loretto, is the Holy Cross Church. The cradle of Catholicism in Kentucky, Holy Cross was settled in the early 1780's by a group of Catholic families from Maryland, and it was near the site of the church that Father Whelan said the first mass in Kentucky. The first Catholic Church west of the Allegheny Mountains was built here in 1792. The present Holy Cross Church was erected by Rev. Nerinx in 1823, the last of ten churches he built in Kentucky.
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