Parishes and Schools Recommended for Realignment

PARISHES AND SCHOOLS RECOMMENDED FOR REALIGNMENT

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is recommending closing 31 parishes and 14 schools, as well as opening five new parishes and several new churches. Some missions would close.

PARISHES

New Parishes to be Established Vicariate

1. South Shore Staten Island

2. St. Paul, Bullville (Mission becoming a parish) Orange County

3. Our Lady of the Lake Mission Orange County

4. Stormville Area Dutchess County

5. Our Lady of the Assumption Mission Orange County

New Churches for Existing Parishes

(Getting new church buildings)

1. St. John Nam (relocate) Northeast Bronx

2. St. John Neuman Staten Island

3. St. Joseph, Croton Falls Northern Westchester

4. Holy Spirit, Cortlandt Manor Northern Westchester

5. St. Lawrence O’Toole, Brewster Northern Westchester

6. St. Margaret, Pearl River Rockland County

7. St. Gregory Barbarigo, Garnerville Rockland County

8. St. Peter (relocate to Holy Rosary) Dutchess County

9. St. Anthony Dutchess County

Parishes to Close

1. Nativity Church South Manhattan

2. Mary Help of Christians South Manhattan

3. Our Lady Queen of Angels East Manhattan

4. St. Rita of Cascia South Bronx

5. St. Dominic East Bronx

6. St. Mary Northeast Bronx

7. St. Paul Staten Island

8. St. John the Baptist de LaSalle Staten Island

9. Our Lady of the Rosary Yonkers

10. St. Margaret of Hungary Yonkers

11. Holy Cross, Tarrytown Central Westchester

12. St. Stanislaus, Hastings Central Westchester

13. St. Mary, Newburgh Orange County

14. Most Sacred Heart, Port Jervis Orange County

15. St. John the Baptist, Poughkeepsie Dutchess County

Parishes to Become Missions or Chapels Vicariate

(Territorial Parish in parentheses)

These parishes are recommended for closing, but their churches will become missions attached to another parish, or a smaller chapel will be established in place of a closing church. Missions and chapels can have services but are not full-fledged parishes, with a priest, parish council and other services.

1. St. Brigid** (St. Stanislaus) (Chapel) South Manhattan

2. St. Veronica ** (OL of Guadalupe) South Manhattan

3. Sacred Heart of Jesus ** (St. Stephen) (Chapel) East Manhattan

4. St. Vincent de Paul (nearby parish) (Chapel) West Manhattan

5. Guardian Angel (St. Columba) West Manhattan

6. Our Lady of Esperanza (St. Rose of Lima) North Manhattan

7. Resurrection ** (St. Charles Borromeo) Central Harlem

8. St. Augustine (No parish listed) (Chapel) South Bronx

9. St. Francis of Assisi ** (Sacred Heart) South Bronx

10. St. Anthony ** (St. Frances of Rome) Northeast Bronx

11. St. Francis of Assisi (St. Frances of Rome) Northeast Bronx

12. Assumption, Tuckahoe ** (Immaculate Con.) Central Westchester

13. St. Stanislaus, Pine Island (St. Joseph, Florida) Orange County

14. St. Francis of Assisi, Newburgh (Sacred Heart) Orange County

15. St. Francis de Sales, Phoenicia (St. John) Dutchess County

16. St. Thomas Aquinas, Forestburg (St. Peter) Sullivan County

** Parish has already been functioning as a mission but canonical process has not yet taken place

Missions Closing Vicariate

(Territorial parish in parentheses)

These missions will close and be absorbed into the existing parish.

1. St. Benedict the Moor (Sacred Heart of Jesus) West Manhattan

2. St. Michael, Goldens Bridge Northern Westchester

(St. Joseph, Croton Falls)

3. St. John, North Salem (St. Joseph, Croton Falls) Northern Westchester

4. St. Edward Mission, Florida Orange County

(St. Stephen, Warwick)

5. Blessed Sacrament Mission, Fort Montgomery Orange County

(Sacred Heart, Highland Falls)

6. Our Lady of Lourdes, Allaben Ulster County

(St. Francis de Sales, Phoenicia)

7. Our Lady of LaSalette, Boiceville Ulster County

(St. Francis de Sales, Phoenicia)

8. St. Augustine Chapel, West Shokan Ulster County

(St. John, West Hurley)

Merging

1. St. Joseph-Monroe and St. James South Manhattan

2. Presentation, Port Ewen and Sacred Heart Ulster County

Mission, Esopus

SCHOOLS

Closing Vicariate

1. St. Joseph-Greenwich Village (reopen as academy)South Manhattan

2. Mary Help of Christians South Manhattan

3. Our Lady of Sorrows South Manhattan

4. Our Lady Queen of Angels East Manhattan

5. St. Catherine of Genoa North Manhattan

6. Resurrection Central Harlem

7. Our Lady of Solace East Bronx

(Create Archdiocesan Catechetical Center)

8. St. Anthony Northeast Bronx

9. St. Mary Star of the Sea Northeast Bronx

10. St. Martin of Tours Northwest Bronx

11. St. Paul Staten Island

12. St. Denis Yonkers

13. St. John the Evangelist, White Plains Central Westchester

14. St. Joseph, Florida Orange County

Merging

1. Guardian Angel-St. Columba West Manhattan

2. St. Peter, Regina Coeli Dutchess County