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==History==
Father Mardiros Meguerian was appointed as the first priest to minister to Armenian Catholics in New York. He was sent by Patriarch Stephan Peter X Azarian in 1896. Meguerian was named the General Vicar of Armenian Catholics in the United States in 1911.<ref name=eparchy>{{cite web|url=http://armenianeparchy.org/stanns/history/|title=St. Ann's Cathedral History|publisher=Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg|access-date=2014-01-15}}</ref> He was succeeded by Father Haroutioun Maljian whose ministry in New York spanned 50 years from 1921
Cardinal [[Terence Cooke]] of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York]] offered St. Ann's Church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for use as the Armenian Catholic cathedral. The offer was accepted and St. Ann's Cathedral was established in 1983. In 2002, Cardinal [[Edward Egan]] requested that the exarchate surrender the facilities at St. Ann's . Attempts were made to save the cathedral, but in the end the exarchate had no choice.<ref name=armeniancatholic>{{cite web|url=http://www.armeniancatholic.org/inside.php?lang=en&page_id=30401|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725014158/http://www.armeniancatholic.org/inside.php?lang=en&page_id=30401|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-07-25|title=Eparchy of the United States and Canada|publisher=Armenian Catholic Church|access-date=2014-01-15}}</ref> Bishop [[Thomas Daily]] and his successor Bishop [[Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio|Nicholas DiMarzio]] of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn offered St. Vincent de Paul Church in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn as a new site for both the exarchate and the cathedral parish. This offer was accepted and the name of St. Ann's Cathedral was maintained.
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