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The Church of St. Andrew is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 20 Cardinal Hayes Place, Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1842. The present building was erected in 1939 through a joint effort involving Maginnis & Walsh and Robert J. Reiley in the Georgian Revival architectural ...
St. Andrew's Cathedral in 2022. St. Andrew's Cathedral, is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Philadelphia. Established in 1897, it is the oldest Eastern Orthodox Christian Church in Philadelphia. The current rector is the Archpriest Mark Shinn. It is located at 5th Street & Fairmount Avenue.
The current bells, which predate the cathedral, came from St. Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom. [7] They were cast in 1812 by John Briant (1748-1829), a bellfounder based in Hertford. [8] They went unrung for many years due to that church's structural issues, and in 1972, facing redundancy, the bells were put
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 2067 Fifth Avenue at 127th Street in the neighborhood of Harlem in Manhattan, New York City.Built in 1872, it was designed by noted New York City architect Henry M. Congdon (1834–1922) in the Gothic Revival style.
The diocese's first bishop Henry J. Richter chose Saint Andrew's as his cathedral and was consecrated in it on April 22, 1883. [2] Lightning struck the cathedral in 1901 and a fire destroyed part of the church building. It was rebuilt and expanded. Some of the wooden beams above the ceiling still show the charred marks from the fire.
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The first building was used from 1858 to 1884 (presently used as the Chapel of St. Ann's Academy on Humboldt Street). The second building was used from 1884 to 1892 (situated behind the current building now occupied by the St. Andrew's Square office building), after which the parish moved into the present cathedral.
Bishop Andrew Byrne dedicated the first St. Andrew Cathedral in 1845. In 1850, Byrne recruited a contingent of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland to come to the parish. He converted his residence next to the cathedral into a convent for them. The sisters then opened a day school with 55 students, nearly all of whom were non-Catholics. [3]