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The Church of St. John Nepomucene is a Roman Catholic parish located on East 66th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. [2] The founders of the church were recent immigrants from Slovakia, who began meeting in St. Brigid's Parish at 8th Street and Avenue B in about 1891 and established the Society of St. Matthew to organize their own parish.
John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (Czech: Jan Nepomucký; German: Johannes Nepomuk; Latin: Ioannes Nepomucenus [1]) (c. 1345 – 20 March 1393) [2] was a saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia ...
Vejmluva was a proven devotee of John of Nepomuk before he was beatified as well as after he was canonized. [3] The preparation of the project dates from late April to the early August 1719, and is considered a direct reaction of the abbot to the discovery of preserved tissue in the tomb of John of Nepomuk in the St. Vitus Cathedral on 15 April ...
Oct. 19, 1998 — The Rev. Alan Ruppert, pastor of St. Clement Church in McLeansboro and St. John Nepomucene in Dahlgren. May 1, 2002 — The Rev. Edward Balestrieri, administrator of St. Mary ...
Only St. John Nepomucene and St. Frances Xavier Cabrini remained open for regular Masses and other events. This combined parish of East River Catholic churches is called the Church of St. John Nepomucene, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini & St. John the Martyr. [6] [7] On June 30, 2017, the church was deconsecrated. [8]
The current parish community of St. John-Visitation has its roots in the Kingsbridge neighborhood in the 1860s. The Kingsbridge neighborhood was originally part of the City of Yonkers; Catholics in the area were served by priests from St. Mary's Church, and later also the Jesuits of Fordham University (founded as St. John's College).
While the new one was built, the parishioners worshiped in the nearby Bohemian parish of Saint John Nepomucene. The foundation stone was laid by the new pastor, Reverend Jakub W.J. Pacholski, on October 28, 1894. The Basilica was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day November 28, 1895, by the Most Reverend Joseph B. Cotter, Bishop of Winona.
St. Joseph's (German) St. Anthony of Padua (French) St. Stephen of Hungary in Bridgeport (1887) St. John Nepomucene (Slovak), the first Slovak church in New England [16] in Bridgeport (1881) In 1843, Pope Leo XIII split the Diocese of Hartford off from the Diocese of Boston, which had previously covered all of New England.