St. Finbar Catholic Church And School (Burbank, California)
St. Finbar Catholic Church and School is a Roman Catholic church and elementary school on Olive Avenue in Burbank, California. It is the largest Catholic parish in Burbank, a city with a population of more than 100,000 people. St. Finbar gained notoriety over the years for its innovations in adapting to its multiethnic community, offering Vietnamese-language Masses to a wave of immigrants from Vietnam in 1975, and becoming one of the first U.S. Catholic parishes to offer Spanish-language Mass in the early 1990s.
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