Editing Preston, Lancashire (section)

===Church denominations===

A wide range of denominations are, or have been, represented in the city including: [[Latin Church]] Catholics, [[Baptist]], [[Christadelphian]], [[Congregational]], [[Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion]], [[Evangelical]], [[Methodist]], [[Pentecostal]], [[Presbyterian]], [[Swedenborgian]] and [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)|Wesleyan Methodist]]. The [[Society of Friends]] meet at the Preston Friends Meeting House at 189 St George's Road.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lancsquakers.org.uk/preston.php |title=Preston Quakers |access-date=21 May 2019 |archive-date=21 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921165327/http://www.lancsquakers.org.uk/preston.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Preston has a strong Roman Catholic Christian history and tradition, recently noted by Archbishop Vincent Nichols in his Guild 2012 Mass Homily: "The history of the Christian and Catholic faith is long and deep here in Preston."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rcdow.org.uk/fileupload/upload/PrestonGuildMass39201234132.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=14 August 2013 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924111636/http://www.rcdow.org.uk/fileupload/upload/PrestonGuildMass39201234132.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Preston lies in the Roman Catholic [[Diocese of Lancaster]] and the Anglican [[Diocese of Blackburn]]. There are at least 73 churches, chapels, missions and meeting houses, as well as 15 cemeteries and burial sites, for which records exist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Preston/|title=GENUKI: Preston, Lancashire genealogy|work=genuki.org.uk|access-date=15 January 2012|archive-date=9 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109144912/https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Preston/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Carey Baptist Church, Preston|Carey Baptist Church]], on Pole Street, was built in 1826 for the Calvinistic Methodists of [[Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion|Lady Huntington]]. Formerly known as St Paul's Chapel, it was purchased by the Baptists in 1855. It is a Grade II listed building.<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1207315|desc= Carey Baptist Church, Preston|grade=II|access-date= 29 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Preston/Preston/carey/index.html|title=Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project – District of Preston|website=Lan-opc.org.uk}}</ref><!-- better sources available at the target article --> The church survives remains active in the community.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

Preston was the location of the world's first foreign mission of the [[Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints)|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (commonly known as the Mormons). As early as 1837 the first [[Mormon missionaries|Latter-day Saint missionaries]] to Great Britain began preaching in Preston and, in particular, other small towns situated along the River Ribble. Preston is home to the world's oldest continuous [[Branch (LDS Church)|branch]] (a small congregation) of the church.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lds.org.uk/media_news.php |title=Media Newsroom |publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |year=2007 |access-date=22 May 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070514193120/http://lds.org.uk/media_news.php |archive-date = 14 May 2007}}</ref> An official memorial to the church pioneers may be found in the Japanese Garden in Avenham Park. In 1998 the church erected a large temple at [[Chorley]], near Preston, described by [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] newspaper as "spectacular".<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/05/15/nmor15.html Mormons reveal secrets of the temple] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020310124501/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1998%2F05%2F15%2Fnmor15.html |date=10 March 2002 }}. www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2008.</ref> The temple is officially known as the [[Preston England Temple]].