Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Church Records

List of Churches and Church Parishes in Lackawanna County

 * FamilySearch Places

Databases with Several Denominations

 * 1620-1991 (*) at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images


 * 1708-1985 Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – ($), free to members of the society, List of Churches Included; Also available at Ancestry ($)

Because Lackawanna County was not formed until 1878, many early congregations are discussed in the Luzerne County church records.

Baptist
The Baptist church was first organized in Scranton in 1859.

Catholic Church
An early church and cemetery was built near Roaring Brook. Later the congregation moved to Scranton in the Hyde Park area. The Cathedral was erected in 1865. The property included a convent and college.


 * The Diocese of Scranton had online listings of: Diocese of Scranton; Parish directory; and Directory of diocesan cemeteries.


 * Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Inc. has digitized the Sacramental Records of every chapel, church, mission, and parish within the Diocese of Scranton, now open and closed. This includes over three hundred churches encompassing eleven counties in northeastern Pennsylvania.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Ward and Branch Records of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Scranton
 * Scranton Dist

Episcopal/Anglican Church
Early services were conducted by the Wilkes-Barre leaders. A congregation was organized in 1851, with service in the Methodist church. A frame church was built in Scranton in 1853 and, later a new edifice was completed in 1871.


 * 1894-1910 Baptisms, marriages, and burials of St. David's Episcopal Church, West Scranton, Pa. at The USGenWeb Project

Lutheran Church

 * 1897-1933 Baptisms and deaths of Immanuel Lutheran Church, North Scranton, Pa. at The USGenWeb Project

Methodist Church
Methodism was first introduced into Luzerne County in about 1787. Meetings were held in homes and shops. By 1800, monthly meetings were held in Providence. he first meetinghouse was erected in 1828 in Carbondale. Most early preaching was done by traveling circuit-riding ministers. Later congregations were found in Hanover, Newport and the Plains.

In the 1840's the Methodist congregation built a church in Scranton. This building was used every other week for Methodist services and for various other congregations the other weeks.


 * 1851-1913 Baptisms and marriages of Providence Methodist Church at The USGenWeb Project
 * Primitive Methodist Church, Taylor, Pennsylvania, most records before 1936 were destroyed. See Primitive Methodist History for more information about this church.

Presbyterian Church
Presbyterians met in Scranton in the Methodist church in the 1840's. In 1845 they moved their meetings to the Odd Fellow's Hall. A new building was completed in 1852.

Presbyterian Church, Baldmount
 * 1842-1876  in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - index