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          Saint Bede Catholic Church (Williamsburg, Virginia)

          Catholic parish and national shrine

          Church in Virginia, United States

          Saint Bede Catholic Church in James City County and Williamsburg, Virginia, is a Catholicparish in the Diocese of Richmond.

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        6. The National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, located adjacent to the campus of the College of William & Mary, is a part of the parish.[2] It was the first Catholic church in Williamsburg.

          History

          Early Catholicism on the Peninsula

          The first known Catholics in the Virginia Peninsula were two Dominican friars, accompanied by 37 Spanish and Portuguese troops and guided by a converted Algonquian, in August 1566.

          Forty years earlier, the short-lived 1526 San Miguel de Gualdape colony with its Catholic faithful had been established nearby, but its precise location is not known.[3] Ten Spanish Jesuits founded St. Mary's Mission, known more commonly as the Ajacán Mission, in 1570.[4] One posited