St. Stephen of Hungary Church
414 East 82nd Street | also 416 East 82nd Street | Yorkville | built 1927
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- 1902
Laszlo Perenyi founds a parish for Yorkville's Hungarian Catholics
Perenyi, a Hungarian-born priest, organizes the parish to serve the growing immigrant population settling in Yorkville around the turn of the century. The congregation initially worships in a former Presbyterian church on East 14th Street, decades before it builds its own church uptown.
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- 1922
The Franciscan order takes over the parish's administration
The Order of Friars Minor assumes responsibility for St. Stephen of Hungary, continuing to run the parish for the rest of its existence. The friars oversee construction of the East 82nd Street church a few years later and remain until the parish closes in 2015.
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- 1926
The parish files plans for a new $240,000 church building
Architect Joseph H. McGuire files plans for a new church and school to replace the congregation's temporary worship space, budgeted at $240,000. Construction proceeds over the next two years, and the church later opens on East 82nd Street.
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- 1928
Yorkville's Hungarian Catholics complete a new church on East 82nd Street
The Hungarian priest László Perényi founded the congregation in 1902, first worshipping in a former Presbyterian church on 14th Street. As Hungarian immigrants moved up to Yorkville, the parish built this Romanesque Revival church, designed by Hungarian architect Emil Szendy and completed in 1928. Franciscan friars ran the parish from 1922.
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- 2015
St. Stephen of Hungary holds its final Mass
In November 2014 the Archdiocese of New York announced that the parish would be merged with others. The last Mass was celebrated on August 30, 2015, and the Hungarian congregation moved to the nearby Church of St. Joseph on East 87th Street.
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