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This is a list of all the active Roman Catholic and Eastern Rite Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of New York. In 2014, Archbishop Timothy Dolan announced the merger of Roman Catholic 113 parishes in the archdiocese, with 31 churches permanently closing. The list includes individual churches that were merged into new parishes or were closed ...
The church was once the most important in Manhattan's "Little Germany" and was often referred to as the "German Catholic Cathedral" of New York by the German Catholic community. This parish grew out of the first German Catholic parish in New York City, St. Nicholas' Church, which has since been closed and demolished. [5]
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 church as it appeared in 1914. In 1886 the territory extending from 34th to 44th Streets, west of 10th Avenue, was separated by the Archdiocese of New York from St. Michael's and Holy Cross parishes and formed into the new parish of St. Raphael, which was incorporated May 4 of that year.
The Church of St. Francis of Assisi is a parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and is located at 135–139 West 31st Street, Manhattan, New York City. [1] The parish is staffed by the Order of Friars Minor. [2] [3]
The marble main and side altars are by Borgia Marble Works of New York. The interior is decorated in Neapolitan Baroque style. Donatus Buongiorno created thirty oil painting murals for the walls and ceiling. The building was renovated in 1995 by the Gargiulo Brothers Construction Company of Mount Vernon, to repair damage suffered from water ...
St. Bernard's Church was built from 1873 to 1875 to the designs of Patrick C. Keely and was the first church consecrated by an American Cardinal, Archbishop of New York John McCloskey. [1] Once considered one of the most important parishes in the city, the congregation at the time of erection consisted of mostly Irish immigrants and their ...
The elaborate midblock church, located on 107th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway, has an attached parish house, both designed in the Sicilian Romanesque of the Norman and Byzantine hybrid style and built between 1896 and 1897 to the designs by the German—American Catholic church-building architectural firm of Schickel & Ditmars. [1]