Article: A DECLINING INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH CHURCHES.(TRICENTENNIAL)

Byline: Dean Betz

As the population of Albany swelled in its second century, the city's religious foundation in Calvinism and the English church broadened with the faiths brought by its new people.

Mostly through Irish immigration, Roman Catholicism quickly grew after the American Revolution with the arrival of an early, small, and - when compared to later Irish immigrants - relatively well-off population. The Protestant community, still under the influence of the tolerant Dutch, was a supportive one, and in 1798, Catholics laid a cornerstone at Pine and Chapel streets for St. Mary's, only the second Catholic church in the state.

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