SS. Peter and Paul Church

In 1918, Archbishop Alexander Nemolovsky, of the Russian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America and the Aleutian Islands, authorized a group of Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants from Hungary to establish a new parish, named Ss. Peter and Paul’s, in Bayonne, New Jersey. This group organized the Carpatho-Russian American Citizens Club in 1919, which was instrumental in organizing the new parish. The parish was incorporated on December 22, 1922 by the State of New Jersey, and this date has since been regard...