Catholic New York City

by Richard Panchyk

Book Overview

Catholic New York City celebrates the religious and cultural life f one of the largest Catholic populations in the world. The first Catholic church was founded in the 1780s, and the diocese was subsequently founded in 1808, when there were only a few priests in the entire state. The 1879 completion of the country's best-known Catholic church, St. Patrick's Cathedral, was a crowning moment in New York City's Catholic history. Between 1850 and 1900,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738565512
• ISBN13: 9780738565514
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"