SEE THE LIST: Archdiocese announces Catholic church closures, mergers

DETROIT (WXYZ) - During a Monday news conference, Archbishop Allen Vigneron unveiled the future plans for the Catholic community of southeast Michigan.

Vigneron detailed the Church's restructuring plans that will impact the church's 267 parishes.

Our Lady Queen of Peace in Harper Woods and St. Donald in Roseville will be closing before the end of 2012.

Also during 2012, St. Clement and St. Teresa of Avila in Warren will be merging, as will St. Francis Xavier in Ecorse and Our Lady of Lourdes in River Rouge. St. Joseph and St. Elizabeth in Wyandotte will also be merging, as will St. Genevieve and St. Maurice in Livonia.

Six parishes will also have to submit acceptable debt repayment plans by June 30, 2012. Those parishes may have to close or merge with a neighboring parish if that is not accomplished.

The six parishes are Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Detroit, St. Simon and Jude in Westland, St. Alexander and St. Clare of Assisi in Farmington Hills, St. Florian in Hamtramck and St. Mel in Dearborn Heights.

In 2013 23 parishes are planned to merge into 11 parishes by the end of that year. Those churches are as follows:

• Our Lady Queen of Angels and St. Stephen-Mary Mother of the Church, both in Detroit, will develop a
• plan to merge.
• St. Alphonsus in Deaborn, St. Clement in Dearborn, St. Barbara in Dearborn and St. Cunegunda in
• Detroit will develop a plan to merge, expecting to use multiple worship sites.
• St. Anthony Lithuanian in Detroit and Divine Providence Lithuanian in Southfield will develop a plan to
• merge.
• St. Francis D’Assisi and St. Hedwig parishes, both in Detroit, will develop a plan to merge.
• St. Irene in Dundee and St. Joseph in Ida will develop a plan to merge.
• St. Joseph in Maybee and St. Patrick in Carleton will develop a plan to merge.
• St. Joseph and St. Martha, both in Dearborn, will develop a plan to merge.
• St. Leo and St. Cecilia, both in Detroit, will develop a plan to merge and consider use of buildings to
• maintain their outreach services.
• St. Mary in Rockwood and St. Victor in Gibraltar will develop a plan to merge.
• St. Mary of Redford and St. Luke, both in Detroit, will develop a plan to merge and consider use of
• buildings to maintain their outreach services.
• St. Patrick in Wyandotte will develop a plan to merge with the previously merged parish of St. Joseph and
• St. Elizabeth in Wyandotte

As the plan moves forward, between 2014 and 2016 7 parishes will merge into three parishes.

Sacred Heart in Roseville, St. Athanasius in Roseville and Our Lady Queen of All  Saints in Frasier will submit a merger plan by 2014.

St. Isaac Jogues in St. Clair Shores and St. Angela in Roseville will submit a plan to cluster in 2014 and merge in 2015.

St. Lucy and St. Joan of Arc will submit a plan to merge by 2016.

The seven following churches have also been instructed as follows:

• Holy Family in Inkster will close as a parish, but will remain as a chapel in the St. Mary in Wayne parish. No date has been set of this to happen.
• St. Edmund and St. Sylvester in Warren will cluster in 2012 and eventually merge into one parish
• In Detroit, Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Church of the Madonna, St. Benedict and St. Gregory will develop a plan to merge and retain a maximum of two worships sites. One of those sites must be the Cathedral of the Most Blesses Sacrament.

Finally, 214 other parishes will submit plans to cluster, merge or closely collaborate with another parish. For these churches, this does not mean that they will cluster or merge. The Church wants the parishes to have a plan in place in case it becomes necessary because a pastor is not available or the parish encounters financial deficits.

The 214 churches are:

• All Saints in Detroit
• Blessed Pope John Paul II in Detroit
• Christ the King in Detroit
• Christ the Good Shepherd in Lincoln Park
• Christ the Redeemer in Lake Orion
• Church of the Divine Savior in Westland
• Church of the Transfiguration in Southfield
• Corpus Christi in Detroit
• Divine Child in Dearborn
• Divine Mercy Parish in Davisburg
• Gesu in Detroit
• Good Shepherd in Detroit
• Guardian Angels in Clawson
• Holy Cross Hungarian in Detroit*
• Holy Family in Memphis
• Holy Family in Novi
• Holy Family Italian in Detroit*
• Holy Innocents/St. Barnabas in Detroit
• Holy Name in Birmingham
• Holy Redeemer in Detroit
• Holy Spirit in Highland
• Holy Trinity in Port Huron
• Immaculate Conception in Ira Township
• Immaculate Conception in Lapeer
• Most Holy Trinity in Detroit
• National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak
• Nativity of Our Lord in Detroit
• Our Lady of Albanians in Southfield
• Our Lady of Czestochowa in Sterling Heights
• Our Lady of Fatima in Oak Park
• Our Lady of Good Counsel in Plymouth
• Our Lady of Grace in Dearborn Heights
• Our Lady of Grace (Vietnamese) in Warren
• Our Lady of Hope in St. Clair Shores
• Our Lady of La Salette in Berkley
• Our Lady of Loretto in Redford Township
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Emmett
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Temperance
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Wyandotte
• Our Lady of Refuge in Orchard Lake
• Our Lady of Sorrows in Farmington
• Our Lady of the Angels in Taylor
• Our Lady of the Lakes in Waterford
• Our Lady of the Woods in Woodhaven
• Our Lady on the River in Marine City
• Our Lady of the Rosary in Detroit
• Our Lady of Victory in Northville
• Our Lady Queen of Apostles in Hamtramck
• Our Lady Queen of Heaven in Detroit
• Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Beverly Hills
• Our Lady Star of the Sea in Grosse Pointe Woods
• Presentation/Our Lady of Victory in Detroit
• Prince of Peace in West Bloomfield
• Resurrection in Canton
• Sacred Heart in Auburn Hills
• Sacred Heart in Deaborn
• Sacred Heart in Detroit
• Sacred Heart in Grosse Ile
• Sacred Heart in Imlay City
• Sacred Heart in Yale
• Sacred Heart Mission in Brown City
• San Francesco in Clinton Township
• SS. Andrew and Benedict in Detroit
• SS. Cyril & Methodius in Sterling Heights
• SS. John and Paul in Washington Township
• SS. Peter & Paul in Detroit
• SS. Peter & Paul in Northbranch
• SS. Peter & Paul Jesuit in Detroit
• St. Aidan in Livonia
• St. Alan in Troy
• St. Albert the Great in Dearborn Heights
• St. Alfred in Taylor
• St. Aloysius in Detroit
• St. Aloysius in Romulus
• St. Ambrose in Grosse Pointe Park
• St. Anastasia in Troy
• St. Andrew in Rochester
• St. Andrew Kim Korean in Northville*
• Ste. Anne de Detroit
• St. Anne in Monroe
• St. Anne in Ortonville
• St. Anne in Warren
• St. Anthony in Belleville
• St. Anthony in Temperance
• St. Anselm in Dearborn Heights
• St. Augustine in Richmond
• St. Augustine-St. Monica in Detroit
• St. Bartholomew-St. Rita in Detroit
• St. Basil the Great in Eastpointe
• St. Benedict in Waterford
• St. Blase in Sterling Heights
• St. Charles Borromeo in Detroit
• St. Charles Borromeo in Newport
• St. Christopher in Detroit
• St. Christopher in Marysville
• St. Clare of Montefalco in Grosse Pointe Park
• St. Clement of Rome in Romeo
• St. Colette in Livonia
• St. Colman in Farmington Hills
• St. Columban in Birmingham
• St. Constance in Taylor
• St. Cornelius in Dryden
• St. Cyprian in Riverview
• St. Damian in Westland
• St. Damien of Molokai in Pontiac
• St. Daniel in Clarkston
• St. Dennis in Royal Oak
• St. Dunstan in Garden City
• St. Edith in Livonia
• St. Edwards on the Lake in Lakeport
• St. Elizabeth in Detroit
• St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Troy
• St. Ephrem in Sterling Heights
• St. Fabian in Farmington Hills
• St. Frances Cabrini in Allen Park
• St. Francis of Assisi-St. Maximilian Kolbe in Ray Township
• St. Gabriel in Detroit
• St. Gerald in Farmington
• St. Henry in Lincoln Park
• St. Hilary in Redford Township
• St. Hubert in Harrison Township
• St. Hugo of the Hills in Bloomfield Hills
• St. Hyacinth in Detroit
• St. Isidore in Macomb Township
• St. Irenaeus in Rochester Hills
• St. James in Ferndale
• St. James in Novi
• St. Jane Frances de Chantal in Sterling Heights
• St. John Bosco in Redford Township
• St. John Fisher Chapel University Parish in Auburn Hills
• St. John Neumann in Canton
• St. John the Baptist in Dearborn Heights
• St. John the Baptist in Monroe
• St. John the Evangelist in Allenton
• St. John Vianney in Shelby Township
• St. Josaphat in Detroit
• St. Joseph in Detroit
• St. Joseph in Erie
• St. Joseph in Lake Orion
• St. Joseph in Monroe
• St. Joseph in South Lyon
• St. Joseph in Trenton
• St. Jude in Detroit
• St. Justin in Hazel Park
• St. Kenneth in Plymouth
• St. Kieran in Shelby Township
• St. Lawrence in Utica
• St. Linus in Dearborn Heights
• St. Louise de Marillac in Warren
• St. Louis in Clinton Township
• St. Lucy Croatian in Troy*
• St. Malachy in Sterling Heights
• St. Mark in Warren
• St. Margaret of Scotland in St. Clair Shores
• St. Martin DePorres in Warren
• St. Mary (Greektown) in Detroit
• St. Mary in Milford
• St. Mary in Monroe
• St. Mary in Port Huron
• St. Mary in Royal Oak
• St. Mary in St. Clair
• St. Mary in Wayne
• St. Mary Burnside in Northbranch
• St. Mary Magdalen in Hazel Park
• St. Mary Mystical Rose in Armada
• St. Mary Queen of Creation in New Baltimore
• St. Mary of the Hills in Rochester Hills
• St. Matthew in Detroit
• St. Matthias in Sterling Heights
• St. Michael in Livonia
• St. Michael in Monroe
• St. Michael in Sterling Heights
• St. Nicholas in Capac
• St. Owen in Bloomfield Hills
• St. Patrick in Detroit
• St. Patrick in White Lake
• St. Paul Albanian in Rochester Hills
• St. Paul of Tarsus in Clinton Township
• St. Paul on the Lake in Grosse Pointe Farms
• St. Perpetua in Waterford
• St. Peter in Mount Clemens
• St. Peter Claver in Detroit
• St. Peter the Apostles in Harper Woods
• St. Philomena in Detroit
• St. Pius X in Southgate
• St. Priscilla in Livonia
• St. Raphael in Garden City
• St. Raymond-Our Lady of Good Counsel in Detroit
• St. Regis in Bloomfield Hills
• St. Rene Goupil in Sterling Heights
• St. Richard in Westland
• St. Rita in Holly
• St. Robert Bellarmine in Redford Township
• St. Roch in Flatrock
• St. Ronald in Clinton Township
• St. Sabina in Dearborn
• St. Scholastica in Detroit
• St. Sebastian in Dearborn Heights
• St. Stanislaus Kostka in Wyandotte
• St. Stephen in New Boston
• St. Suzanne/Our Lady Gate of Heaven in Detroit
• St. Thecla in Clinton Township
• St. Theodore in Westland
• St. Therese of Lisieux in Shelby Township
• St. Thomas in Detroit
• St. Thomas a’Becket in Canton
• St. Thomas More in Troy
• St. Timothy in Trenton
• St. Valentine in Redford Township
• St. Veronica in Eastpointe
• St. Vincent Ferrer in Madison Heights
• St. William in Walled Lake
• Sweetest Heart of Mary in Detroit

The news conference took place at the Blessed Pope John Paul II Parish, located at 5830 Simon K. Street in Detroit and revealed the results of the extensive planning process called "Together in Faith, Phase II."

The Archdiocese said a severe priest shortage is prompting some closings along with changing demographics and the financial difficulties some parishes are experiencing.

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Parish Breakdown