page_title: St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia
section_title: Changes of population and area
hierarchical_section_title: St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia / Changes of population and area
caption_attribution_description: English: View of rear of St. Michael's Church 19122 showing the choir loft and organ with the American and Papal flags.
context_page_description: St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church is an active parish of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia located at Second and Jefferson Streets in Philadelphia, in the West Kensington section of the city.
context_section_description: The membership of the church, at that time largely an Irish parish adjacent to the handloom weaving mills in Kensington where both Catholic and Protestant Irish immigrants worked, grew exponentially after the Irish Potato Famine in the late 1840s, but, as the surrounding area saw the founding of additional Catholic churches, its territory and population dropped as the Catholics in the area were divided among other parishes.
  Today, the parish boundaries extend broadly from West Kensington into Kensington, Fishtown and Northern Liberties, increasing notably after it assumed the territory of the neighboring Immaculate Conception Parish in 2011 when that parish was suppressed and made a worship site of St. Michael's.   In addition,  there is a significant Latino population, mostly concentrated in West Kensington, along with other ethnic groups in the remaining parts of the parish.
caption: The rear of St. Michael's Church in Philadelphia showing the organ with American and Papal flags flying from the front of the choir loft.
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