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This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.The diocese covers the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. [1] [2] Churches in the rest of New York City (Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx) are part of the Archdiocese of New York.; see the List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.
The Diocese of Brooklyn (Latin: Diœcesis Bruklyniensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S. state of New York. It is headquartered in Brooklyn and its territory encompasses the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens .
Maryville University (St. Louis, Missouri) – renounced affiliation with the Catholic Church in 1972; Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) – formerly Marquette University College of Medicine; Mercy University (Dobbs Ferry, New York) - renounced affiliation with the Catholic Church in the 1970’s.
St. Joseph's Seminary and College, sometimes referred to as Dunwoodie after the Dunwoodie neighborhood of Yonkers, New York in which it is located, is the major seminary of the Archdiocese of New York. [1] Since 2012, it has also been the major seminary for the Diocese of Brooklyn and the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
There are three diocesan and/or parish high schools under the auspices of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens. While the Catholic high schools below may geographically lie within the diocese, most are run independently of it. [1] Brooklyn. Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School (Fort Greene) Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School (East Flatbush)
Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary & St. Stephen (Brooklyn) St. Agnes Academic High School (Queens) Saint Cecilia's Catholic Church (Brooklyn) St. Edmund Preparatory High School; St. Francis Preparatory School; St. John's Preparatory School (Queens) St. Joseph High School (Brooklyn) Saint Saviour High School
After establishing the first community of religious Sisters in the diocese in 1817, the Sisters began to staff dozens of parochial schools, the College of Mount St. Vincent, the now-closed Elizabeth Seton College in Yonkers, the New York Foundling Hospital and former St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in Manhattan and Staten Island.
The following American schools were once operated by Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of New York and have closed. The number of schools operated by the archdiocese in the early 1960s was 414; that figure went down to 274 in early 2011, [1] and then 245 in 2013. [2]