The Diocesan Presbyteral Council approved the merger earlier this month. The new parish will be named Saint Katharine Drexel.
The merger of Catholic churches in Kent and Ravenna will produce changes for more than half of Portage County's parishes.
The Most Rev. David J. Bonnar, bishop of the Youngstown Diocese, made the announcement over the weekend. The Portage parishes were among locations in three of the diocese’s six counties to receive the ...