Catholic New York City
Panchyk, Richard / Egan, Edward Cardinal![Catholic New York City](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/499/4995891/CHSBZCOP034995891.jpg)
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 1...