St. Theresa Catholic Church is a Catholic parish located in Rhodelia, Kentucky. It was built in 1855 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

The current Gothic Revival church was designed by architect William Keely and was built during 1855–61.

St. Theresa Catholic Church (Rhodelia, Kentucky)

The church is at the center of one of the oldest Catholic settlements in the state of Kentucky, known today as "Kentucky's Holy Land". The enslaved mother and maternal grandparents of Venerable Augustus Tolton were parishioners at St Theresa until the 1830s.

St. Theresa Catholic Church (Rhodelia, Kentucky)

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Roman Catholic churches in Kentucky

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky

Gothic Revival church buildings in Kentucky

Roman Catholic churches completed in 1855

19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States

National Register of Historic Places in Meade County, Kentucky

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville

1855 establishments in Kentucky

St. Theresa Catholic Church (Rhodelia, Kentucky)