Saint Aedan's Curch in Jersey City

St. Aedan's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in McGinley Square, Jersey City, a few blocks south of Journal Square. It is part of the Archdiocese of Newark. St. Aedan’s parish was born in the early 1900’s out of the Irish-American, Catholic community just south of Journal Square. Until the 1970s, St. Aedan’s served a mostly Irish-American congregation. But over the years, as more Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean and African immigrants came to Jersey City, by the 1990s the congregation shifted to one with much more diverse ethnic and national origins: Filipino, Central and South American, Caribbean, Indian, African, Italian, Irish, and others. The parish continues to see and celebrate this dramatic diversity today.