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Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (New York City)

The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola is a Catholic parish church located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, administered by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York, and was established in 1851 as St. Lawrence O'Toole's Church. In 1898, permission to change the patron saint of the parish from St. Lawrence O'Toole to St. Ignatius of Loyola was granted by Rome.[2] The address is 980 Park Avenue, New York City, New York 10028. The church on the southwest corner of Park Avenue and 84th Street is part of a Jesuit complex on the block that includes Wallace Hall, the parish hall beneath the church, the rectory at the midblock location on Park Avenue, the grade school of St. Ignatius's School on the north midblock location of 84th Street behind the church and the high school of Loyola School (also 980 Park Avenue) at the northwest corner of Park Avenue and 83rd Street. In addition, another Jesuit high school, Regis High School (55 E 84th Street), occupies the midblock location on the north side of 84th Street. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1980.[1]

Location

980 Park Avenue, New York City, New York

40°46′44″N 73°57′31″W / 40.77889°N 73.95861°W / 40.77889; -73.95861

3.5 acres (1.4 ha)

1895-1900[2][3]

Schickel & Ditmars[2]

German Baroque; Classical Revival

Official website

80002679[1]

06101.002473

0431

July 24, 1980

June 23, 1980

March 4, 1969

History[edit]

The parish was established in 1851.[2][4] It occupies "the site of the former St. Lawrence O'Toole Church, founded in 1851, and named for a twelfth-century bishop of Dublin by the parish's first pastor, the Rev. Eugene O'Reilly from Ireland.[5] The parish was entrusted to the care of the Society of Jesus in 1886 and marked the Jesuits' first major apostolate in the Yorkville area of New York.[5] Late-nineteenth-century directories listed the address of St. Lawrence at the corner of Park Avenue and East 84th Street.[6]


The present grand limestone edifice stands as testimony to both the growing affluence and confidence of the Catholic community on New York's Upper East Side near the start of the 20th century as well as the ambitious determination of Fr. Neil McKinnon, S.J., pastor of the parish from 1893 to 1907.[5] During his time, Martin J. Scott, later a noted author of novels and controversial literature, worked as assistant priest among the young (1902-1915) and built a day nursery in 1910.


The church was declared a New York City Landmark on March 4, 1969.[2] The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1980.[1]


The church was used as the setting for the funeral of Logan Roy, a central character in the HBO television series Succession. Filming for the episode, which aired in May 2023, took place over two and a half days.[7]

First Lady – May 1994[8]

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

singer and actress – August 2001[8]

Aaliyah

– September 2006

Patricia Kennedy Lawford

singer and actress – May 2010[8]

Lena Horne

actor – February 2014[8]

Philip Seymour Hoffman

fashion designer – November 2014[8]

Oscar de la Renta

governor of New York – January 2015[9]

Mario Cuomo

co-owner of N.Y. Giants Football Team – February 2015

Ann Mara

N.Y. Times media columnist – February 2015

David Carr

1. Rev. Eugene O'Reilly, rector 1851-August 5, 1852

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2. Rev. Thomas Ouellet, S.J., rector 1852-

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3. Rev. Walter J. Quarter, rector –1866

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4. Rev. (1811–1866), rector 1863–1866[13]

Samuel Mulledy

5. Rev. Victor Beaudevin, S.J., rector 1866–

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10. Rev. John Treanor, S.J., rector (–1880)

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11. Rev. , S.J.(1826-1895), rector November 1, 1880- [12]

Robert J. Fulton

12. Rev. David Merrick, S.J. (rector 1880–)

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan below 14th Street

List of Jesuit sites

List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan below 14th Street

Dooley, Patrick Joseph (1917). . New York: Parish House. p. 45. OCLC 680497244. Retrieved June 26, 2019 – via Internet Archive.

Fifty Years in Yorkville; Or, Annals of the Parish of St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Lawrence O'Toole

Dunlap, David W. From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

St. Ignatius Loyola, A Pictorial History and Walking Guide of New York City's Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 1999. Photos by Laurie Lambrech.

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Further reading

Media related to Church of St. Ignatius Loyola Complex at Wikimedia Commons

Official website