St. Joseph Cathedral (Bayonne, New Jersey)

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St. Joseph Cathedral
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The former St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church
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40°39′49.9″N74°07′02.4″W / 40.663861°N 74.117333°W / 40.663861; -74.117333
Location21 E. 23rd St.
Bayonne, New Jersey
Country United States
Denomination Syriac Catholic
History
Status Cathedral/Parish church
Founded2011
Specifications
Administration
Diocese Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark
Clergy
Bishop(s) Most Rev. Yousif Habash
Chancellor Rev. Luke Edelen, O.S.B.

St. Joseph Cathedral was a predominantly Iraqi-American Syriac Catholic cathedral located in Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. It was the seat of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark. [1]

In 2011, the cathedral was established in the former St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church on Avenue E, a former parish of the Archdiocese of Newark. [2] St. Joseph Parish was founded as a Slovak parish in 1888, and the church building was completed in 1909. [3] [4] As of 2018, that church building was deconsecrated, and the property became part of a planned redevelopment project. [5] St. Joseph Cathedral moved to the former St. Michael's parish property on East 23rd Street. [3] [6]

The old St. Joseph church building was demolished in 2020 and will be replaced with a residential building. However the tower bells and St Joseph statue were preserved. [7] The bells were placed on the top of a bell tower across the street from City Hall and were dedicated in November 2022. [8] [9]

On July 1, 2022, Pope Francis approved moving the seat of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance from St. Joseph Cathedral in Bayonne to St. Toma in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The move places the cathedral closer to the center of the Syriac Catholic population in the United States. [10]

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