Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
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|location = 319 East 74th Street
New York City, New York 10021
|country = United States
|denomination = Greek Orthodox Church
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|membership = 800 families
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|dedicated date = September 14, 1931
|consecrated date = October 22, 1933
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|architect = Kerr Rainsford, John A. Thompson, Gerald A. Holmes
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The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, at 319–337 East 74th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, is a Neo-Byzantine-style Greek Orthodox church.{{cite web|url=http://www.goarch.org/archdiocese/institutions/holytrinity |title=Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity |publisher=Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |access-date=January 5, 2013}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_F5yntZocGIC&q=%22holy+trinity%22+cathedral+greek++74&pg=PA147 |title=The Orthodox Church: Student Edition |author=Thomas E. FitzGerald |publisher= Greenwood Publishing Group|year= 1998 |access-date=January 5, 2013|isbn=9780275964382 }} It serves as the national cathedral of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and as the episcopal seat of Archbishop Elpidophoros of America.
Established in 1891, and at its present location since 1932, it was the second Greek Orthodox church in the Americas, the first in New York City, and the largest Eastern Orthodox church in the Western Hemisphere.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWXnRWvl0Q0C&q=%22largest%22+%22orthodox+christian%22+%22western+hemisphere%22&pg=PA102 |title=From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship |author=David W. Dunlap |access-date=January 19, 2013|isbn=9780231125420 |year=2004 }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r0KOGNUyazwC&q=%22Holy+Trinity%22+%22largest+orthodox+christian%22+western |title=Glory in Gotham: Manhattan's houses of worship : a guide to their history .. |author1=David Dunlap |author2=Joe Vecchione |access-date=January 19, 2013|isbn=9781929439010 |year=2001 }}
Activities
The cathedral is the home parish for 800 families, and hosts dignitaries and visitors. It offers regular worship (which is broadcast on television), Sunday school, afternoon school, the Cathedral School (grades N-8), Bible study, and various ministries and fellowship organizations.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJJ5AEMd2HsC&q=%22holy+trinity%22+cathedral+greek++74th&pg=PA317 |title=Newcomer's Handbook For Moving to and Living in New York City: Including Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and Northern New Jersey |author=Jack R. Finnegan |publisher=First Books |year=2007 |access-date=January 5, 2013|isbn=9780912301723 }}
History
In 1891 the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox parish's first home was in part of an Evangelical church on West 53rd Street for US$50 per month (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|50|1891|r=-2}}}} in current dollar terms).{{cite web|url=http://www.thecathedralnyc.org/cathedral-history |title=Cathedral History | Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity |publisher=Thecathedralnyc.org |access-date=January 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207180509/http://www.thecathedralnyc.org/cathedral-history |archive-date=December 7, 2012 }} It was the second Greek Orthodox church in the Americas and the first in New York City.
In 1904 it was purchased and moved to a Gothic Episcopal church at 153 East 72nd Street. In 1927, the East 72nd Street church burned down, and two years later land was purchased and a new church was built for $577,000 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|577000|1932|r=-5}}}} in current dollar terms) in Byzantine style. Eleanor Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the cathedral on September 14, 1931. Holy Trinity moved to its current location on March 4, 1932. Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople, later Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, consecrated the cathedral on October 22, 1933. He called it: "The Cathedral of all of Hellenism in America". In 1949, it established the Cathedral School. It was designated the archdiocesan cathedral in 1962.
On September 18, 1999, Archbishop Demetrios was enthroned at the cathedral as primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America.{{cite news|author=Nadine Brozan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/19/nyregion/orthodox-archbishop-enthroned-in-a-majestic-ceremony.html |title=Orthodox Archbishop Enthroned in a Majestic Ceremony |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 19, 1999 |access-date=January 5, 2013}} The cathedral's dean, the Rev. Robert Stephanopoulos, had been demoted and relieved of responsibilities at the cathedral in January 1999 by Archbishop Spyridon of America, but by late 1999 had regained his position.{{cite news|author=Larry Stammer |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-23-me-837-story.html |title=Stephanopoulos' Father Loses Post |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 23, 1999 |access-date=January 5, 2013}} Stephanopoulos retired in 2007, after being dean for 25 years, and Frank Marangos was named the new dean.{{cite web|url=http://archive.wfn.org/2007/10/msg00004.html |title=Father Robert Stephanopoulos to retire after of 25 years as Dean of the Archdiocesan Cathedral |publisher=Worldwide Faith News |date=October 1, 2007 |access-date=January 5, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://archive.wfn.org/2007/09/msg00227.html |title=Rev. Dr. Frank Marangos Named Dean of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity |publisher=Worldwide Faith News |date=September 27, 2007 |access-date=January 5, 2013}} Anastasios Gounaris became dean in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.thecathedralnyc.org/clergy |title=Clergy | Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity |publisher=Thecathedralnyc.org |access-date=January 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207180529/http://www.thecathedralnyc.org/clergy |archive-date=December 7, 2012 }}
Opera singer Maria Callas was baptised at the church in 1926.{{Cite book |last=Jellinek |first=Georg |url=https://archive.org/details/callasportraitof0000jell |title=Callas: portrait of a prima donna |date=1986 |publisher=Dover |isbn=978-0-486-25047-2 |series=Dover books on opera |location=New York City |pages=4 |url-access=registration}}{{Cite book |last=Petsalis-Diomidis |first=Nikolaos |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781574670592 |title=The unknown Callas: the Greek years |date=2001 |publisher=Amadeus Press |isbn=978-1-57467-059-2 |series=Opera biography series |location=Portland, Oregon |pages=36–37 |url-access=registration}} In 2001 television journalist and former political advisor George Stephanopoulos and comedian Alexandra Wentworth were married there.{{cite magazine| title=George Stephanopoulos and His Wife Ali Wentworth's Have an Unexpected Love Story|first=Tamara|last=Fuentes| magazine=Good Housekeeping | date=6 March 2018 | url=https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/relationships/news/a48056/george-stephanopoulos-wife-ali-wentworth-love-story/}}
Architecture
The exterior is Romanesque Revival red brick and limestone.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hV42c0qix2IC&q=Archdiocesan+Cathedral+of+the+Holy+Trinity+dome |title=North American Churches |author=Eric Peterson |publisher= Publications International, Limited|year= 2005 |access-date=January 5, 2013|isbn=9781412710206 }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0gj61QSgk8C&q=%22romanesque%22+%22Archdiocesan+Cathedral+of+the+Holy+Trinity%22&pg=PA471 |title=AIA Guide to New York City |author1=Norval White |author2=Elliot Willensky |author3=Fran Leadon |publisher= Oxford University Press|year= 2010|access-date=January 5, 2013|isbn=9780199772919 }} The cathedral's architects were Kerr Rainsford, John A. Thompson, and Gerald A. Holmes; they later designed Hunter College Uptown, which is now known as Lehman College. The interior has Byzantine mosaics, botticino marble for the walls, columns, and altar, and imported Italian stained glass. The iconography on the dome was created by Georgios Gliatas, a student of iconographer Fotis Kontoglou. The church sits down the block from the Bohemian Gothic Revival Jan Hus Presbyterian Church.
References
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External links
- [http://www.thecathedralnyc.org/ Cathedral website]
- [http://www.goarch.org/archdiocese/institutions/holytrinitygoarch.org/archdiocese/institutions/holytrinity goarch.org]
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Category:Churches in Manhattan
Category:Cathedrals in New York City
Category:Greek Orthodox churches in New York City
Category:Greek Orthodox cathedrals in the United States
Category:Churches completed in 1932
Category:Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Category:Christian organizations established in 1891