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The Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village is a Roman Catholic parish church located at 365 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) at the corner of Washington Place in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Constructed in 1833–1834, it is the oldest church in New York City specifically built to be a Roman Catholic ...
The church opened February 25, 1838 with Archbishop John Hughes officiating. [3] The parish, part of the Archdiocese of New York, is the oldest Catholic parish in New York State, and the building replaced an earlier one built in 1785–86. [4] The original church was used for worship until 1834 when it was replaced by the present structure.
This is a list of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. It covers the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island in New York City. The Archdiocese of New York also covers Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. [1]
St. James' Roman Catholic Church is located at 32 James Street between St. James Place and Madison Street in the Two Bridges neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. [3] It is the second oldest Roman Catholic building in the city, built in 1835–1837 of fieldstone , with a pair of Doric columns flanking the entrance. [ 2 ]
The first Catholic parish church in New York City was St. Peter's on Barclay Street, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1785. [8] By the early 19th century, Anthony Kohlmann , the Jesuit rector of that church, realized that the city's growing Catholic population needed both a second sanctuary and a cathedral for the first bishop, since the ...
St. Patrick's Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is the seat of the Archbishop of New York as well as a parish church . The cathedral occupies a city block bounded by Fifth Avenue , Madison Avenue , 50th Street , and 51st Street , directly across from Rockefeller Center .
The Church of St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr is home to the oldest Polish Roman Catholic parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, It is located at 101 East 7th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
The church was founded in 1833 by the Austrian Rev. Johann Stephen Raffeiner. The parish was founded in 1833 by the Austrian priest Father Johann Stephen Raffeiner (1785–1861) as the first and thus oldest German-language Catholic parish in New York City.