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The Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village is a Roman Catholic parish church located at 365 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) at the corner of Washington Place in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Constructed in 1833–1834, it is the oldest church in New York City specifically built to be a Roman Catholic ...
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.
The first Catholic parish church in New York City was St. Peter's on Barclay Street, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1785. [8] By the early 19th century, Anthony Kohlmann , the Jesuit rector of that church, realized that the city's growing Catholic population needed both a second sanctuary and a cathedral for the first bishop, since the ...
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]
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.
Catholic Oldest Catholic Church in original 13 colonies. Brookville Reformed Church: Brookville, Long Island New York: NY 1732 Dutch Reformed Oldest church on Long Island, NY Christ Church: Nanjemoy, Maryland: MD 1732 Episcopal Oldest Episcopal congregation in Maryland St. Thomas Episcopal Church: Bath, North Carolina: NC 1734 Episcopal
Holy Mother of the Rosary Cathedral (Polish National Catholic Church) (not in full communion with Rome) 42°53′32″N 78°35′55″W / 42.892312°N 78.598648°W / 42.892312; -78.598648 ( Holy Mother of the Rosary Cathedral (Lancaster, New
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 ]