St. Blaise's Church (Brooklyn, New York)

The Church of St. Blaise
General information
Town or city	East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Country	United States of America
Completed	1908[1]
Design and construction
Client	Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York

The Church of St. Blaise is a former Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, located in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The parish was established in 1905 out of the Holy Cross parish for the burgeoning Italian community, who had since 1897 been administered to by Father Ludeke and Father Malone.^[1] The parish was merged with that of St. Francis of Assisi's Church (Brooklyn, New York), which had been established in 1898 to form the parish of St. Francis of Assisi / St. Blaise. The combined parish is located at 319 Maple Street, Brooklyn, New York 11225, the premise of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi.^[2] Effective January 31, 2011, the merged parish of St. Francis of Assisi - St. Blaise absorbed the territorial boundaries of the former Parish of Saint Ignatius, wherein "all the assets and obligations [including the parochial registers and the seals] currently belonging to the former Parish of Saint Ignatius are by this canonical decree transferred to the Parish of Saint Francis of Assisi – Saint Blaise." The Church of Saint Ignatius remains open as a chapel of ease within the merged parish.^[3]

Buildings

The St. Blaise's Church building was dedicated October 18, 1908 and the Rev. Joseph Bonaventure was given charge until the appointment of a pastor.^[1] The first pastor was Rev. Vincent A. Di Giovanni, appointed June 20, 1911.^[1]

Pastors

• Rev. [Francis] Ludeke of Holy Cross Church (1897-1898)^[1]
• Rev. Malone of Holy Cross Church (1898-1905)^[1]
• Rev. Joseph Bonaventure, temporary pastor, (1905-?)^[1]
• Rev. Simonetti, temporary pastor, (?-June 20, 1911)^[1]
• Rev. Vincent A. Di Giovanni, first official pastor, (June 20, 1911-?)^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. Volume 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg Together with some Supplementary Articles on Religious Communities of Women.. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.545.
2. ^ BROOKLYN PARISHES, listed in order by year established. (Accessed 16 May 2011)
3. ^ Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Ph.D., D.D., Bishop of Brooklyn, DECREE - St. Ignatius, Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, November 12, 2010 (Retrieved 16 May 2011.) Excerpted from "Christ Jesus, Our Hope is the strategic planning initiative for the Diocese of Brooklyn, which I mandated in the beginning of 2010. With the formation of the Diocesan Planning Commission, chaired by the Most Reverend Frank Caggiano, Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia, and the Reverend Monsignor Edward B. Scharfenberger, Vicar for Strategic Planning, I began the process of assessing each of the Diocese's 197 parishes for the purpose of evaluating both their pastoral vitality as well as their financial viability...."