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St. Anthony of Padua Church
This photo shows the decorated Sullivan Street facade (right) and the plain Houston Street side, which was originally hidden by tenement buildings (left)
St. Anthony of Padua Church
Location	154 Sullivan Street, New York,New York 10012
Country	United States
Denomination	Catholic Church
Religious institute	Order of Friars Minor
Website	http://www.stanthonynyc.org/
History
Status	active
Founded	(First parish) 1859; (re-established) 1866
Founder(s)	Rev. Mr. Sanguinetti; Friar Leo Pacilio
Dedication	St.Anthony of Padua
Dedicated	April 10, 1866 (first church);
Architecture
Architect	Arthur Crooks
Style	Romanesque Revival
Years built	1886–1888
Administration
Archdiocese	New York
Clergy
Pastor	Rev. Mario Julian
Laity
Business manager	Theresa Salfi-Bent

TheChurch of St. Anthony of Padua is aCatholicparish church in theArchdiocese of New York, located at 155Sullivan Street at the corner ofWest Houston Street, in theSouth Village andSoHo neighborhoods ofManhattan,New York City. It was established in 1859 as the first parish in the United States formed specifically to serve theItalian immigrant community.^[1]

The parish was founded by a priest named Sanguinetti who had come from Italy with the approval ofJohn Hughes, theArchbishop of New York, to help provide the services of the Catholic faith to his countrymen who had emigrated to the United States. With no clergy available to serve these immigrants in their native language, many had stopped practicing the faith or had begun to join other denominations. The congregation initially worshiped at the former site of theChurch of St. Vincent de Paul built in 1841 onCanal Street, which Sanguinetti leased from that parish. He lasted in that ministry for only about a year, however, as he returned to his homeland, feeling overwhelmed and disheartened from the various obstacles which arose for the parish.^[2]

The Italian community did not wish to lose the work Sanguinetti had begun. Hughes' successor,John McCloskey, appealed for help toPamfilo of Magliano, theMinister Provincial of the Franciscan friars then based atSt. Bonaventure College inAllegheny, New York. Father Pamfilo agreed to take responsibility for this ministry. He assigned Friar Leo Pacilio, a native ofNaples, to this task. The parish was thus re-established in 1866 at what had been built in 1839 at 149 Sullivan Street as the Sullivan Street Methodist Episcopal Church, which had relocated to become the Washington Square United Methodist Church.^[1] The parish was served by theFranciscanfriars, who continue to administer it.^[3][4] The church was solemnly dedicated on April 10, 1866, by McCloskey, by then the firstcardinal of New York.

Between 1886 and 1888, the parish funded the building of a new church on Sullivan Street, designed byArthur Crooks in theRomanesque Revival style. The friars had originally taken up residence with the first church structure, but by this period a separate friary was built for them on Thompson Street directly behind the church. This came to also serve asprovincial headquarters for their Minister Provincial.

TheHouston Street facade of the building was originally blocked by tenement buildings, which were demolished when Houston Street was widened in the early 1930s, exposing the plain facade. The church now uses this space as a garden.^[1] From 1902 to 2005 the parish operated a school (K–8) on Mac Dougal Street.

On the night of November 4, 1938, the friary caught fire. A young friar, Richard Fagan, initially escaped the flames but then went back into the building twice to rescue two other friars, Fathers Louis Vitale and Bonaventure Pons. Returning a third time, he was trapped and badly burned. He escaped by breaking through a window and landed on the roof of a neighboring building. He was found and taken toColumbus Hospital, where he died of his injuries at the age of 27. A small park at the intersection ofSixth Avenue andPrince Streets was named in his honor by the City of New York in 1941.^[5]

• Rev. Father Leo Pacilio (1866–?)
• Rev. Joachim Guerrini (?–1871)
• Rev. James Titta (1871–1877)
• Rev. Anacletus Di Angelis (1877–1890)
• Rev. Arthur Lattanzi (c. 1950s, 1960s)
• Rev. Roderick Crispo (1970s)
• Rev. Felician Napoli (1970s)
• Rev. Patrick D. Boyle (1980s)
• Rev. Daniel B. Morey (1990s)
• Rev. Joseph F. Lorenzo (1990s)
• Rev. Mario Julian (through 2022)
• Rev. Michael Corcione (present)

• Our Lady of Pompeii Church
• Italian Americans in New York City

• Media related toSt. Anthony of Padua Church (Manhattan) at Wikimedia Commons

• 1866 establishments in New York (state)
• Franciscan church buildings in the United States
• Romanesque Revival church buildings in New York City
• Italian-American culture in New York City
• Italian-American Roman Catholic national parishes in the United States
• Patrick Keely buildings
• Religious organizations established in 1866
• Roman Catholic churches completed in 1888
• Roman Catholic church buildings in Manhattan
• SoHo, Manhattan
• 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States

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