List of Religious Orders in The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York - Religious Orders No Longer Operating in The Archdiocese

Religious Orders No Longer Operating in The Archdiocese

• Assumptionist Fathers - The Fathers were entrusted with the care of the Church of Our Lady of Esperanza, on the Upper West Side, and the Church of Our Lady of Guadelupe, on 14th Street, which was the first church established (1914) in the Archdiocese to serve the Spanish-speaking. The provincial house was also located in New York City. However, by 1998, the fathers had handed the churches back over to the archdiocese and the provincial house had moved to Massachusetts.
• Benedictine Monks - Monks from Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota came in 1891 to serve the German community of the Bronx. For this, they established and administered two parishes. One, St. Anselm Parish, was located in the South Bronx. The other, St. Benedict Parish, was located in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx. (This was the home parish of Cardinal Terence Cooke. Ironically, it was in the 1970s, during his tenure as Archbishop, that they chose to withdraw from their service in New York).
• Daughters of Mary, Health of the Sick - The sisters had their motherhouse, Vista Maria, located in Cragsmoor, New York. The order was founded in the 1930s and disbanded in 1976. Some members joined other religious orders, including the Sisters of Charity of New York.
• Dominican Sisters of the Holy Cross - The Sisters, whose motherhouse is located in Amityville, New York, ran the St. Joseph Sanitarium in Sullivan County, which was the summer retreat of Cardinal Patrick Hayes, as well as staffed parochial schools in Manhattan.
• Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary - The sisters ran Mount St. Mary Academy and College located in Newburgh. They merged in 1995 to form the Dominican Sisters of Hope.
• Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary - The sisters, whose motherhouse is located in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, came to the archdiocese to staff parochial schools. Among the schools they formerly staffed are Corpus Christi in Manhattan.
• Dominican Sisters of the Sick Poor - The sisters, whose primary apostolate was to nurse the sick poor in their homes, merged with two other congregations to form the Dominican Sisters of Hope in 1995.
• Marianites of Holy Cross - The Sisters ministered in healthcare and education, sponsoring St. Vincent de Paul Academy in Tarrytown, St. Louis Academy in Staten Island and the French Hospital in Manhattan.
• Missionary Canonesses of St. Augustine - These Belgian Sisters had convents at 437 West 47th Street and on Washington Square North in Manhattan (1927). In 1948, the sisters took over operation of the Queen's Daughters' Day Nursery in Yonkers, New York. In the 1960s, the congregation changed its nature to a more active one and was renamed the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
• Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart - The Sisters ran St. Pascal Day Nursery in Manhattan, as well as the Mount Mongola summer camp in Ellenville. They also had convents located on Staten Island.
• Sisters of Bon Secours - A group of nursing Sisters, their convent was located at 1195 Lexington Avenue from 1885 until 1947, when they returned to their motherhouse in France. Today, however, a major medical chain established by the Sisters of this same congregation out of the Boston area run several previously-Catholic hospitals.
• Sisters of Our Lady of Charity - Their primary apostolate was to work with women in need. They ran St. Andrew's Retreat House in Walden until 2006.
• Sisters of the Cenacle - The sisters, whose main focus was to run retreats for women to recollection and prayer, established a convent on Riverside Drive in 1893 and moved to Mount Kisco in 1956. The order sold their land after Vatican II and left the Archdiocese.
• Sisters of the Visitation - The Visitation Sisters had a monastery in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Due to declining vocations, the monastery closed and most sisters moved to the Visitation Monastery in Brooklyn.
• Sulpician Fathers - The Fathers staffed St. Joseph Seminary in Yonkers from 1896 to 1906.
• Xaverian Brothers - The Brothers came to the archdiocese in 1940 and helped staffed Cardinal Hayes High School, Our Lady of Good Counsel School in Manhattan, Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains and Mount Loretto on Staten Island.