History & Significance
Cathedral · Est. Church building completed 1909; became a Syriac Catholic cathedral in 2011
St. Joseph Cathedral in Bayonne, New Jersey, originated as a Slovak Roman Catholic parish founded in 1888, with its Gothic Revival church building completed in 1909 under the Archdiocese of Newark. In 2011 it became a predominantly Iraqi-American Syriac Catholic cathedral, serving as the seat of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark. The original Avenue E building was deconsecrated in 2018 and demolished in 2020 (its bells and St. Joseph statue preserved), and the congregation moved to the former St. Michael's property. On July 1, 2022, Pope Francis approved relocating the eparchial seat to St. Toma in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Gothic Revival (original 1909 building)
- •Former seat (cathedral) of the Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark
- •Originally a Slovak Roman Catholic parish founded in 1888; church building completed in 1909
- •Became a predominantly Iraqi-American Syriac Catholic cathedral in 2011
- •Original Avenue E building deconsecrated in 2018 and demolished in 2020; bells and St. Joseph statue were preserved
- •Pope Francis approved moving the eparchial seat to Farmington Hills, Michigan, effective July 1, 2022
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