Immaculate Conception Church (Tuckahoe, New York)
| Church of the Immaculate Conception | |
|---|---|
Archdiocese of New York | |
| Clergy | |
| Pastor(s) | Fr. Anthony Sorgie |
The Church of the Immaculate Conception is a
History
The Church of the Immaculate Conception was created as a mission of the
With a growing Irish, Italian, German, and Lithuanian population of Catholics in the Bronxville area of Eastchester (the area not yet incorporated into a village), as well as the neighboring communities in Eastchester and Yonkers, Immaculate Conception's priest, Fr. John G. McCormack with the assistance of Fr. Joseph L. McCann and Fr. Martin Lydon, established a mission in 1905 that would eventually become the Church of St. Joseph.[1]
Construction of a wooden church building began in Waverly Square and Archbishop Michael Corrigan deeded to the young parish the plot of land on which it sat in 1886, though it had initially been gifted to the Archdiocese of New York 32 years prior by a local Catholic quarryman. A belfry was subsequently added in 1885. The mission that was dedicated in the honor of the Immaculate Conception was elevated to the rank of a parish in 1878 by Cardinal John McCloskey upon the visit and recommendation of the archdiocese's vicar general William Quinn. The parish's first pastor, Fr. John Ambrose Keogh, was appointed that year. The parish was incorporated on April 5, 1886, as "The Church of the Immaculate Conception in the Village of Tuckahoe, County of Westchester, N.Y." and lay trustees were appointed.[2][3]
With the appointment of Fr. John G. McCormick as pastor, a new plot of land that would house the present-day
In 1912, the School of the Immaculate Conception was founded as a parochial elementary school in the no-longer-used wooden church building approximately a mile away, and by the following year was staffed by religious sisters. By 1914, the enrollment in the school had reached 75 students who were instructed by a lay teacher along with the sisters.[5] A new School of the Immaculate Conception was later built in its current location abutting the church, and the former building was demolished. The Knights of Columbus established a Tuckahoe Council in 1920 and operate out of the Immaculate Conception parish.
In 2014, the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, announced that the nearby parish of the Church of the Assumption would be merged with the Church of the Immaculate Conception as part of larger archdiocese-wide mergers.[6]
References
- ^ "Church of Saint Joseph - History - Bronxville, NY". www.saintjosephsbronxville.org. Archived from the original on September 19, 2018. Retrieved September 5, 2016.
- ^ Brennan, Jr., Thomas A. (2003). Church of the Immaculate Conception: A Sesquicentennial History of a Eucharistic People (PDF). pp. 1–10.
- ^ Brennan, Jr., Thomas A. (2003). Church of the Immaculate Conception: A Sesquicentennial History of a Eucharistic People (PDF). pp. 11–20.
- ^ Brennan, Jr., Thomas A. (2003). Church of the Immaculate Conception: A Sesquicentennial History of a Eucharistic People (PDF). pp. 21–30.
- ^ The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. Catholic Editing Company. 1914. p. 437.
- ^ Dolan, Timothy (2 November 2014). "Decree of Merger of the Territorial Parish of Immaculate Conception, Tuckahoe, NY, and the Personal Parish of Assumption, Tuckahoe, NY" (PDF). Archdiocese of New York. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 29, 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
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