XPost: alt.religion.christian.methodist, alt.religion.christian   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:04:34 -0000 (UTC),   
   vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:   
      
   >Up here in the Southern Tier of NY (border with Pennsylvania) Methodists are   
   >quite active, the second largest faith at 15%. RC at 30%.  This territory was   
   >French before the French & Indian Wars but has a lot of descendants of coal   
   >miners from the Scranton area (where Toth brought his Eastern Rite RC flock   
   >to Moscow after breaking with NYC RC Bishop John Ireland).  (Irish-French)   
   >Biden was born in Scranton.  If you consider both sides of the border, we are   
   >called Twin Tiers. Our GOA bishop is in Detroit and since we are west of the   
   >Apallachian Catskills, we are in the Midwest.   
      
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