Church of St. Joseph (Yorkville)
428 East 87th Street | Yorkville | built 1894
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- 1857
German Redemptorists open an orphanage that leads to St. Joseph's founding
In 1857 German Redemptorist priests bought an estate near Avenue A and East 89th Street and opened St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum there. A German Catholic congregation grew up around the orphanage chapel, and in 1873 Archbishop John McCloskey authorized it as its own parish, with the Jesuit Joseph Durthaller as first pastor. The parish later built its own church several blocks south on East 87th Street.
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- 1895
Archbishop Corrigan dedicates St. Joseph's, Yorkville's German Catholic church
St. Joseph's parish was founded in 1873 for the German-speaking Catholics of Yorkville. Its present Romanesque Revival church, designed by J. William Schickel and built in 1894 and 1895, was dedicated by Archbishop Corrigan on November 3, 1895. Its Müller & Abel organ from that time is still in use.
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- 1926
A bell tower is added to St. Joseph's more than thirty years after it opened
In 1926 the parish finally completed a bell tower for the Romanesque Revival church that architect J. William Schickel had designed in the 1890s, and it opened a new parochial school nearby. The additions rounded out the German Catholic congregation's Yorkville campus under longtime pastor Monsignor Gallus Bruder.
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- 2008
Pope Benedict XVI visits St. Joseph's Church
Pope Benedict XVI came to St. Joseph's on April 18, 2008, and gave the parish a chalice and paten, which the church keeps. The parish was founded in 1873 for Yorkville's German-speaking Catholics, and its Romanesque Revival church dates from 1895.
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- 2015
St. Joseph's begins Hungarian-language Masses
When the nearby Hungarian parish of St. Stephen of Hungary closed in 2015, its congregation moved to St. Joseph's. Masses in Hungarian began here on September 6, 2015, so the church that was founded for Yorkville's Germans now also serves its Hungarian Catholic community.
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