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The Church of St Gregory the Great is a Roman Catholic parish located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.The parish is part of the Archdiocese of New York.The church building, designed by architect Elliott Lynch, contains the church and parish offices on the ground floor with St. Gregory the Great Parochial School on the next two floors above, the final fourth floor is occupied ...
The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus was organized in 1868 in the area then known as Bloomingdale. [3] A wood-frame church was erected on the northwest corner of Bloomingdale Road (now called Broadway) and 97th Street. [4] The church was thirty-five by eighty feet, with a capacity of 500; it cost about $3,000 to build.
A church, still of nipa and bamboo, was built that same year under the patronage of Saint Gregory the Great. [8] Due to the lack of religious men, the first parish priest of Majajay, Antonio Nombela was only assigned in 1594. [7] Under his pastorship, a long robe worn by wives to the church, called lambón was first used in the Philippines. [9]
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great (Latin: Ordo Sancti Gregorii Magni; Italian: Ordine di San Gregorio Magno) was established on 1 September 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI, seven months after his election as Pope. [1] The order is one of the five orders of knighthood of the Holy See.
Saint Gregory the Great Parish Church may refer to: Saint Gregory the Great Parish Church in Indang, Cavite, Philippines. Saint Gregory the Great Parish Church in Majayjay, Laguna, Philippines. Saint Gregory the Great Parish Church in Manhattan, New York, United States. Saint Gregory the Great Church in Danbury, Connecticut. Saint Gregory the ...
St. Gregory's Church, Church of St Gregory, or variants thereof, may refer to: Armenia ... St. Gregory the Great Church, Danbury, Connecticut;
Its first church of nipa and lumber was constructed which was placed under the patronage of Saint Gregory the Great, the pope of the Catholic Church from 590 to 604 CE. In 1616, it became a full pledged parish and was called Albay. It was reconstructed with wood planks in 1635 which was razed by fire in 1754.