Editing Leavenworth, Kansas (section)

===Religion===
Leavenworth contains a number of religious traditions stemming from its history and international military population. In the mid to late 19th century, Leavenworth had one of the largest Jewish communities in Kansas, made up of immigrants from Europe.<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9695-leavenworth "Leavenworth"], ''Jewish Encyclopedia''</ref> Leavenworth had multiple Orthodox congregations by 1870. Over generations many Jews ultimately intermarried and their descendants became Christian.<ref>[http://web.ku.edu/~ksreligion/docs/history/judaism.pdf "Judaism"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905172610/http://web.ku.edu/~ksreligion/docs/history/judaism.pdf |date=2012-09-05 }}, Kansas University</ref>

There are two United Methodist Churches, the First United Methodist Church and Trinity United Methodist Church. Other Protestant churches include Lutheran, Episcopal, Southern Baptist, American Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Community Church of Christ, Church of the Nazarene, Grace and Truth Fellowship, Assemblies of God, and Seventh-Day Adventist. Other religious institutions include a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Islamic Center of Leavenworth, A few churches conduct services in [[Hangul]].

Leavenworth is part of the [[Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas]], with two Roman Catholic parishes in the city. Leavenworth was originally the Roman Catholic Diocese of the Indian Territory.  It stretched some 600 miles from the West bank of the Missouri River to the summit of the Rockies, and about three times that distance from the Canadian border on the North to the Red River on the South. [[John Baptist Miège]] was the first Bishop of the Leavenworth Archdiocese, and erected the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, completed in 1854 and dedicated on December 8, 1854 on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.  It remained the Cathedral until Bishop George Donnelly moved the see city of the Diocese to Kansas City Kansas in 1947.