East Jersey in 1698 granted religious toleration to all Christian faiths except Catholicism. In 1668, he had won a seat in the East Jersey provincial assembly, but was denied his seat due to his religion. However, in 1674, William Douglass was arrested in Elizabethtown and banished from East Jersey because he was a Catholic. Some of these early Catholics were French immigrants who were employed at salt works. Starting in 1672, the priests made a few trips to Woodbridge and Elizabethtown to the few Catholics there. The first priests to venture into East Jersey were Harvey and Gage, the chaplains of the Catholic governor of New York, Thomas Dongan.
East Jersey, which covered area belonging to the present Archdiocese of Newark, was hostile toward Catholics. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral 1672 to 1789 ĭuring the 17th century, the British government divided present day New Jersey into separate provinces of East Jersey and West Jersey.
The archdiocese contains the following counties: The Archdiocese of Newark is a metropolitan see with four suffragan diocese in its ecclesiastical province. As of 2023, the archbishop of Newark is Joseph Cardinal Tobin. The mother church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. The Archdiocese of Newark is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in northeastern New Jersey in the United States.
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