The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown announced in a news release on Saturday the name that will be used for the newly merged parish in Columbiana County.

On November 29, 2025, it was announced that three parishes in Columbiana County would be merging beginning on January 1, 2026, including the following:

Saint Jude

Our Lady of Lourdes in Columbiana

Saint Patrick in Leetonia

The reason for the merger was described by a petition, led by members of three pastoral and financial councils, to be an acute shortage of priests and a declining number of parishioners participating in weekend Masses.

As a result, the three parishes will merge and will become Saint Carlo Acutis.

The release states that the name honors an Italian saint whose "life exemplifies modern holiness."

The new name and the

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