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Also known as Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue or Saint Thomas Church in the City of New York, the parish was incorporated on January 9, 1824. The current structure, the congregation's fourth church, was designed by the architects Ralph Adams Cram and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in the French High Gothic Revival style and completed in 1914. [ 2 ]
Peter Williams Jr. (1786–1840) was an African-American Episcopal priest, the second ordained in the United States and the first to serve in New York City. He was an abolitionist who also supported free black emigration to Haiti, the black republic that had achieved independence in 1804 in the Caribbean.
Its congregation was founded in 1809 by free African Americans worshiping at Trinity Church, Wall Street as the Free African Church of St. Philip. First located in the notorious Five Points neighborhood, [2] it is the oldest black Episcopal parish in New York City. [3]
Hugh R. Page (b. 1956), Episcopal priest and scholar at Notre Dame University; Austin Pardue (1899–1981), bishop of Pittsburgh; Leighton Parks (1852–1938), Episcopal priest; Henry N. Parsley, Jr. (born 1948), bishop of Alabama; Samuel Penny (1808–1853), Episcopal priest; ZeBarney Thorne Phillips (1875–1942), Episcopal priest and ...
William Levington (1793 – May 15, 1836) was an African-American clergyman and teacher. The third African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States, he established the first African-American congregation south of the Mason–Dixon line, and worked to educate African American youth.
Dietsche was consecrated at the cathedral on March 10, 2012, and formally installed as the 16th Bishop of New York on February 2, 2013. He was succeeded in 2024 by the Rt. Rev. Matthew Heyd . He was appointed Officer of the Order of St John (OStJ), in September 2017.
On 29 January 1995, he was made an honorary canon of the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, by Richard F. Grein, Bishop of New York. [3] [2] Andrew retired in 1996 and returned for a time to England. [2] He later returned to New York and was appointed Rector Emeritus of St Thomas' Church in 1999. [3]
The plan for the church was based upon St. Michael's Church in Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, England, built in 1230. St. Thomas became known as the “first Medieval Gothic Church in the United States". Warren reduced the size of the church by about 2 feet, as St. Michael's measures 49' x 31' and St. Thomas' measures 47' x 33'.