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This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.The diocese covers the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. [1] [2] Churches in the rest of New York City (Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx) are part of the Archdiocese of New York.; see the List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York covers New York, Bronx, and Richmond Counties in New York City (coterminous with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, respectively), as well as Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties in New York state.
The Holy Cross School served the Hells Kitchen/Times Square area; circa 2011, it had about 300 students; [23] some students originated from areas outside of New York City and outside New York State; in 2013, the archdiocese announced that the school was to close; [2] the school had the possibility of remaining open if $720,000 in pledges to the ...
Church of St. Peter (22 Barclay Street) – Established in 1786; first parish in the Diocese of New York. Merged in 2015. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary's Church (7 State St.) – Established in 1884 as a mission; converted in 1887 to a parish. Home to the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.
With the anti-priest law repealed, the French consul in New York City, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, organized a group of laymen in 1785 to open St. Peter's Parish in Manhattan, the first Catholic parish in New York City. In 1800, the congregation opened a school at St. Peter's, the first Catholic school in New York. [4]
Two years later, Lafont and Aubril were sent to look after the increasing French population in New York City, where the Fathers of Mercy took charge of the parishes of St. Vincent de Paul, Manhattan, [5] and of Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Frances de Chantal, Brooklyn. They also set up houses of studies in Rome, Belgium, France and other places.
The eparchy includes the Maronite Catholic faithful in the eastern coast states of the United States. It borders in the north with the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Montreal, which covers Canada, and to the west with the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles, which covers thirty-four states of the United States.
St. Pius V Church (Bronx, New York) (420 E. 145th St.) – established in 1906, merged with St. Rita of Cascia 2015, St. Pius church building deconsecrated 2017. Church of St. Roch - Personal (National) parish established 1899, merged with St. Anselm's 2015, building relegated to "profane but not sordid use" November 2017.