The Church of St. Charles Borromeo is a parish in the

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, located at 211 West 141st Street in

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.St. Charles Parish web site
/ref> It was part of the Harlem Vicariate. The parish was established in 1888.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.321. On May 8, 2015, the parish was merged with that of All Saints Church.

Buildings

In 1892, the address listed for the church was at 2660 8th Ave. The church was built to the designs of George H. Streeton Pastor C. J. Drew had a four-story parish school at 216-228 West 142nd Street built in 1961 to designs by the architectural firm of Greenberg & Ames of 303 Park Avenue.

History

Eddie Bonnemère Edward Valentine Bonnemère, known professionally as Eddie Bonnemère (February 15, 1921 – March 19, 1996), was an African-American jazz pianist as well as a Catholic church musician, composer and a public school teacher. His "Missa Hodierna" be ...

performed his "Missa Hodierna" at the church in 1966, the first ever Jazz Mass in a US Catholic church. Emerson J. Moore succeeded Father Edward Dugan as pastor in 1975, becoming its first African-American pastor. Moore became the first Black monsignor in the United States in 1978. In 1982,

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appointed Moore a bishop and vicar of the Black community, after visiting the parish personally three years earlier.

References

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