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St. Patrick's Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is the seat of the Archbishop of New York as well as a parish church . The cathedral occupies a city block bounded by Fifth Avenue , Madison Avenue , 50th Street , and 51st Street , directly across from Rockefeller Center .
St. Patrick's Co-Cathedral (Billings, Montana) Pro-Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Newark, New Jersey; St. Patrick's Cathedral (Midtown Manhattan), New York City; St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, Lower Manhattan, New York City; Cathedral of Saint Patrick (Charlotte, North Carolina) Cathedral of Saint Patrick (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral School at 32 Prince Street, across from the cathedral, predates the church itself. It was built in 1825–1826 as the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, operated by the Sisters of Charity. In 1851, the asylum became for girls only, and in 1886 became St. Patrick's Convent and Girls School, before turning co-educational again.
St. Patrick's Cathedral holds the heaviest change-ringing peal of bells in Ireland, [29] which are also the tenth heaviest in the world. [30] They consist of a 12-bell diatonic peal (tenor: 0 long tons 45 cwt 1 qr 18 lb (5,086 lb or 2.307 t))and 3 semitone bells, with the main peal being tuned to the key of C. [31]
The ringers of St Patrick's began the custom of ringing in the New Year in 1871. And by the 1880s, St Patrick's Cathedral became the leading tower for Australian change ringing. The bells were rung for the requiem mass of Pope Pius X in 1914. By 1959 the belfry fell into disrepair and the bells became unringable. The bells remained silent until ...
James Renwick Jr. (born November 11, 1818 – June 23, 1895) was an American architect known for designing churches and museums. He designed the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., and St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
St Patrick's Cathedral (especially its spire) was the climactic location in the 1988 Vincent Ward-directed film The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey. [8] George Michael Lenihan OSB (1858–1910), fifth Bishop of Auckland (1896–1910), and John Mackey (1918–2014), ninth Bishop of Auckland (1974–1983), are buried in the Cathedral [9]
St Patrick's Cathedral sign, November 2009. St Patrick's Cathedral (Irish: Ardeaglais Phádraig, Ard Mhacha) is a Church of Ireland cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is the seat of the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Diocese of Armagh. [1] The origins of the site are as a 5th century Irish stone monastery, said to have been founded by ...