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The Church of St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 211 West 30th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Fur District〔 of the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. To the church's rear is the Capuchin Monastery of St. John the Baptist, located at 210 West 31st Street across from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden. ==History== The parish was established in 1840 as the second parish to serve German Catholics in New York City, after St. Nicholas' Church, on East 2nd Street, which was established in 1833.〔〔Dunlap, David W., ''(From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship )''. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.) p. 215-216.〕 An historian noted: "Both German parishes had lay trustees that were so overbearing that they drove out several pastors."〔 The first church erected was a small timber structure.〔 It was dedicated 20 September 1840.〔 The first pastor was the Rev. Zachary Kunze, O.F.M., who, following disharmony with the lay Board of Trustees, resigned in 1844.〔 Kunze left with a portion of the congregation and founded the nearby Church of St. Francis of Assisi.〔 The problems were so great with the Board of Trustees that, following the resignation of Kunze, the parish of St. John the Baptist was under interdict until 1845 when the Rev. J. A. Jakob became its second pastor. More disagreements ensued and the church was again closed in June 1846. It variously reopened with different pastors, but burned down on 10 January 1847.〔〔 Archbishop John Hughes laid the cornerstone for a new brick church on the site on the 14 March 1847. Until 1851, pastorship of the parish was assumed by the Church of the Nativity until the Rev. Joseph Lutz was appointed pastor. Four months later, the parish was again under interdiction. Lutz explained: "On account of the obstinacy of the parishioners this church was closed and the administration of the Sacraments prohibited by order of His Grace, November 24, 1851." The Rev. P. J. Matschejewski arrived as pastor on 7 March 1852 but remained only two weeks. Father Augustine Danter, O.M.Cap., was appointed as pastor in 1852 and remained until 1869, when he was obliged to retire, after which the church remained closed for some months.〔 In response to the many disputes, Archbishop of New York Cardinal John McCloskey, suppressed St. John the Baptist in 1870 and requested that the newly founded American Province of the Capuchin Friars assume complete control of the resurrected parish.〔 Under the Capuchins, especially its second Capuchin pastor, the Swiss-born Father Bonventura Frey, O.M.Cap., parish animosity dissipated. Under Frey, the German congregation began to erect the present substantial church.〔 Frey left in 1879 to serve as the Minister Provincial of the Capuchins friars in the United States, and moved to their headquarters in Calvary, Wisconsin.〔 He returned from 1888 to 1891 to prepare the parish for its Golden Jubilee.〔 In 1914 the membership of the parish was 1,500.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. John the Baptist Church (Manhattan)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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