St. Joseph's Church, Yorkville (Manhattan)
| Church of St. Joseph, Yorkville | |
|---|---|
| Location | 404 East 87 Street, New York, New York 10128 |
| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Founded | 1873 |
| Dedication | Saint Joseph |
| Dedicated | 1874 (first church), 1895 |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | active |
| Architect(s) | J. William Schickel |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Romanesque Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1874 (first church), 1894 |
| Completed | 1874 (first church), 1895 |
| Administration | |
| Parish | St. Joseph Parish |
| Archdiocese | New York |
| Subdivision | Vicariate for South, East and West Manhattan |
| Clergy | |
| Archbishop | Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan |
| Pastor(s) | Rev. J. Boniface Ramsey |
| Laity | |
| Organist(s) | Alistair C. Reid |
| Business manager | Catherine Rinehardt |
The Church of St. Joseph is the Catholic parish church for St. Joseph Parish, a national parish in New York City founded in 1873 to serve the German-speaking residents of the Yorkville neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
After the Civil War, many German families sought more pleasant surroundings than were to be found in their original enclave of Little Germany on the city's Lower East Side and found it in Yorkville. The German Redemptorists, who served the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in their old neighborhood, opened St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum at Avenue A and East 89th Street to provide the children more open and green space. It was staffed by the School Sisters of Notre Dame, based in Bavaria, who taught their students entirely in German. At that time, the only Catholic Church in the area was the Church of St. Laurence O'Toole, which was run by the Jesuit Fathers on what was to become Park Avenue. The German Catholics who moved into the area relied for church services in their native tongue on a chapel at the orphanage.
In 1873 a delegation of the German Catholic community in Yorkville approached Thomas Ouellet, S.J., the Rector of St. Laurence Parish, who by Church law was their official pastor, and requested that the Jesuits provide a German-speaking priest for a new parish be established to serve their needs. They agreed and referred this request to John McCloskey, the Archbishop of New York, who authorized the establishment of the Parish of St. Joseph. The Jesuits were initially entrusted with its administration and Joseph Durthaller, S.J., was sent to serve as its first pastor. A small church was quickly built and dedicated by McCloskey in 1874. A school for the children of the parish was opened in the orphanage in December 1880.
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