NYC’s First Italian Parish

NYC’s First Italian Parish

Today in 1866 marks the founding of New York City’s first Italian parish, St. Anthony of Padua in Manhattan. (Brooklyn didn’t get its first Italian parish until 1882 when Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary was founded.)

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