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While it was in 1916 that the Augustinian Fathers founded St. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish, their missionary work began in the Brooklyn Diocese 75 years earlier. In 1836, Jamaica was in a robust mood.
Attended from O.L. of Mt. Carmel, L.I.C., 1842; from St. Monica, Jamaica, 1853-1868, until Rev. Joseph Brunemann, O.S.F., named pastor. Parish had a cemetery. Merged with St. Gertrude in 2008 as St. Mary Star of the Sea-St. Gertrude. St. Raphael, Long 1868 Island City.
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Nov 20, 2023 · Servant of God Msgr. Bernard Quinn worked to establish St. Benedict the Moor Church in 1932 for Black Catholics in Queens, 10 years after he formed a similar church for Brooklyn, St. Peter Claver. Father Piasta formerly pastored St. Joseph’s Parish, also in Jamaica, and is a Catholic chaplain at JFK International and LaGuardia Airports.
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Chicago’s first basilica was Our Lady of Sorrows, an imposing Romanesque edifice dedicated in 1902 and located at 3111 W. Jackson Blvd. The structure, whose Renaissance-style interior was modeled after the work of 15thcentury Italian architect Donato d’Agnolo Bramante, features an 80-foot high barrel-vaulted ceiling that spans 65 feet. A series of ...
Chicago acquired its second basilica only six years after its first, when Pope John XXIII elevated Queen of All Saints Basilica in 1962, just two years after the church building opened. Queen of All Saints Parish was created in 1929 in what the “History of the Parishes of the Archdiocese of Chicago” (1980) called a “remote prairie wilderness” inhab...
Chicago’s newest basilica, St. Hyacinth, received its basilica status in 2003, after a visit from Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp, said Resurrectionist Father Francis Rog, an associate pastor. St. Hyacinth Parish was created in 1894, as the Polish population moved northwest along Milwaukee Avenue from the area around St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Rog s...
Apr 30, 2017 · With the connection of Manhattan to Queens, the local development of housing in Jamaica began to mimic what is seen in different sections of Manhattan, Harlem, and the Bronx.
Jun 18, 2020 · Monday June 15, 2020, was the 150th anniversary of the disestablishment of the Church of England in Jamaica. It is now known as the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. The disestablishment came at the expiration of the Clergy Law that was renewed for 11 years in 1858.
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In 1844 Bishop Spencer founded the ‘Jamaica Diocesan Church Society for the Propagation of the Gospel’. He streamlined the structure of the Diocese in 1847, dividing the country into three Archdeaconries corresponding to the three civil counties of Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey.
