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With origins of the first Mass occurring on the present day site of the cathedral dating from 1803, St Patrick's was extensively rebuilt after a 1996 fire devastated the original church that was established in 1854. A tower was built on the original St Patrick's Church which was consecrated in 1880 and blessed in 1883.
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 .
St. Patrick's Co-Cathedral (Billings, Montana) Pro-Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Newark, New Jersey; St. Patrick's Cathedral (Midtown Manhattan), New York City; St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, Lower Manhattan, New York City; Cathedral of Saint Patrick (Charlotte, North Carolina) Cathedral of Saint Patrick (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
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In 1843, St. Joseph Church in Mt. Holly was built. It was to be the first Catholic church in Western North Carolina. [3] On St. Patrick's Day 1852, the cornerstone was laid for the city of Charlotte's first Catholic church, St. Peter Church. Work was completed in 1893. St. Peter Church was under the care of the Benedictine monks from Belmont Abbey.
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral School at 32 Prince Street, across from the cathedral, predates the church itself. It was built in 1825–1826 as the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, operated by the Sisters of Charity. In 1851, the asylum became for girls only, and in 1886 became St. Patrick's Convent and Girls School, before turning co-educational again.
In 1953, the Diocese of Norwich was created as a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Hartford, and St. Patrick's Church became the cathedral for the new diocese. [6] The Most Reverend Bernard J. Flanagan, then Chancellor of the Diocese of Burlington, Vermont , was appointed the first Bishop of Norwich by Pope Pius XII .
The parish was visited by St. John Neumann, who was the bishop of Philadelphia and therefore the parish's bishop, in 1855 and 1857. The Diocese of Harrisburg was established by Pope Pius IX on March 3, 1868. [4] St. Patrick's was named the pro-cathedral of the new diocese.