St. Anthony of Padua Church (Manhattan)
| St. Anthony of Padua Church | |
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This photo shows the decorated Sullivan Street facade (right) and the plain Houston Street side, which was originally hidden by tenement buildings (left)
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| Location | 154 Sullivan Street, New York, New York 10012 |
| Country | United States |
| Website | http://www.stanthonynyc.org/ |
| History | |
| Founded | (First parish) 1859; (re-established) 1866 |
| Founder(s) | Rev. Mr. Sanguinetti; Friar Leo Pacilio, O.F.M. |
| Dedication | St. Anthony of Padua |
| Dedicated | April 10, 1866 (first church); |
| Architecture | |
| Status | active |
| Architect(s) | Arthur Crooks |
| Style | Romanesque Revival |
| Years built | 1886-1888 |
| Administration | |
| Archdiocese | New York |
| Clergy | |
| Pastor(s) | Rev. Joseph F. Lorenzo, O.F.M. |
| Laity | |
| Business manager | Theresa Salfi |
| Religious education coordinator | Sister Annette Seiter, O.S.F. |
Coordinates: 40°43′38″N 74°00′05″W / 40.727302°N 74.00141°W
The Church of St. Anthony of Padua is a Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 155 Sullivan Street near the corner of West Houston Street, in the South Village section of the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1859 as the first parish in the United States formed specifically to serve the Italian immigrant community.
The parish was first founded by a priest named Sanguinetti who had come from Italy with the approval of John Hughes, the Archbishop of New York, to help provide the services of the Catholic faith to his countrymen who had emigrated to the United States. With no clergy available to serve these immigrants in their native language, many had stopped practicing the faith or had begun to join other denominations. The congregation initially worshiped at the former site of the Church of St. Vincent de Paul built in 1841 on Canal Street, which Sanguinetti leased from that parish. He lasted in that ministry for only about a year, however, as he returned to his homeland, feeling overwhelmed and disheartened from the various obstacles which arose for the parish.
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