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The Church of St Gregory the Great is a Roman Catholic parish located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.The parish is part of the Archdiocese of New York.The church building, designed by architect Elliott Lynch, contains the church and parish offices on the ground floor with St. Gregory the Great Parochial School on the next two floors above, the final fourth floor is occupied ...
The parish has an attached elementary and middle school, as well as a community center on West 97th Street. On May 8, 2015, the parish was merged with that of St. Gregory the Great. [1] The Church of St. Gregory the Great was deconsecrated and closed on June 30, 2017. [2]
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
In 1982, the entire complex of St. Gregory's Church, the Loretto Shrine Chapel, and St. Mary's Convent was added to the National Register of Historic Places as . [6] "The Storm of 2000," took the steeple off the church. Officially a windstorm, many say it was a tornado. After the storm, St. Gregory received a new steeple to resemble the original.
The Abbey Church of St Gregory the Great, begun in 1873 and unfinished, is a Grade I listed building. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described its Gothic style as "the most splendid demonstration of the renaissance of Roman Catholicism in England".
Saint Gregory the Great Cathedral Parish, commonly known as Legazpi Cathedral and locally as Albay Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Gregory the Great in the Old Albay District of the city of Legazpi, Albay, in the Bicol region of the Philippines. It is the seat of the Diocese of Legazpi. [1]
The huge cathedral is a complex consisting of three churches: the Cathedral (Main Church) with 1700 seats and the Chapels of Saint Tiridates the King and of Saint Ashkhen the Queen (both with 150 seats). These two royal figures were the crucial helpers of St. Gregory in converting Armenia to Christianity.
From 1997 to 2010, McElroy served as the pastor of St. Gregory Church in San Mateo, California. [2] [3] [5] [6] In 2005, McElroy published an essay on the denial of the Eucharist to public officials because of their political positions.