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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]
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 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 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.
St. Cecilia Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and a historic landmark located at 120 East 106th Street between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York. The parish was established in 1873. [5] It was staffed by the Redemptorist Fathers from 1939 to 2007.
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 church building was constructed in 1841-42 as the Rutgers Presbyterian Church erected in the Gothic Revival style on a plot of ground donated by Colonel Henry Rutgers, and it is said to have the oldest public clock in New York City. [3] The church was taken over by St. Teresa's Parish in 1863, three years after it was founded. [3]
Some $100,000 was spent on the Catholic cathedral in 1867, [59] and the constituent churches of the Archdiocese of New York promised to spend $100,000 a year until the cathedral was complete. [60] Most funding for the cathedral came from the parishioners of these churches, who were mainly poor Irish immigrants.