No, they got it right. The title reads "Oldest northeastern U.S. Catholic parish celebrates bicentennial". Maryland is in the Mid Atlantic region, not the northeast. But thank you for the information on St. Ignatius and the beautiful pix.
The church, whose building was completed in 1808, is the oldest continuing parish on the Atlantic Seaboard north of St. Augustine, Florida.
OK?
The headline may or may not be right (oldest northeastern parish), but the body of the article is inaccurate. That was the point.
Well, the title may say “northeastern,” but the body of the article goes on to say that it is the “oldest continuing parish on the Atlantic Seaboard north of St. Augustine, Florida.” The church markomalley mentions is quite a bit older than the Maine church, so, unless there is one still older north of St. Augustine, FL, it appears this article is wrong, even if its headline may still be correct.