page_title: List of parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany
section_title: Taconic Vicariate
hierarchical_section_title: List of parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany / Taconic Vicariate
caption_attribution_description: English: Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church (Troy, New York), interior
context_page_description: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany covers the Capital District, as well as Warren, Washington, Greene, Columbia, Schoharie, Otsego, Delaware, Fulton, Montgomery, southern Herkimer, and extreme southeastern Hamilton counties in New York state. In these fourteen counties, there are over 100 parishes, along with a number of parish missions, divided among 14 deaneries, 7 vicariates and 29 "local Catholic communities".
context_section_description: Vicar: Very Rev. Thomas Zelker
  All churches listed are in the City of Troy unless otherwise listed
  Christ Sun of Justice (2125 Burdett Ave., across from the Houston Field House) – Established in 1969; parish of RPI, also seat to its Newman Foundation; located at the Chapel + Cultural Center at Rensselaer on the RPI campus
  Church of the Holy Trinity (Cohoes) – Established in 1878; present parish formed from the merger of the Churches of St. Agnes, St. Marie (originally St. Joseph's Church), and St. Patrick's churches in 1998; St. Agnes and St. Patrick's had already merged by 1995.
  Holy Spirit Church (East Greenbush) – Established in 1923
  Immaculate Conception (Hoosick Falls) – Established in 1867
  Immaculate Heart of Mary (Watervliet/Green Island) – Established in 2005 from the merger of St. Patrick's Church in Watervliet and St. Joseph's in Green Island
  The Catholic Community of Our Lady of Victory (55 North Lake Ave.) – Established in 1922
  Mission: Parish of Our Lady of the Snow (Grafton)  – Established in 2009 from a merger of Sacred Heart in Berlin and St. John Francis Regis in Grafton; formerly a separate parish
  Sacred Heart Church (310 Spring Ave.) – Established in 1913; records of St. Francis de Sales and St. William's Churches held here
  Sacred Heart Church (Castleton-on-Hudson) – Established in 1887
  St. Anthony of Padua Shrine Church (28 State St. at intersection with 3rd St.) – Established in 1892; staffed by Franciscan priests; records of St. Patrick's and St. Peter's churches are held here
  St. Augustine's Church (25 115th St.) – Established in 1844
  St. Henry's Church (Averill Park) – Established in 1868
  Parish of St. John the Evangelist and St. Joseph (Rensselaer)  – Established in 1851 and 1916, respectively; merged in 2009
  St. Joseph's Church (416 Third St. at Jackson St.) – Established in 1857; records of Church of the Holy Trinity and St. Mary's Church held here. One of the few parishes to celebrate the Latin Carmelite Rite.
  St. Jude the Apostle (Wynantskill)  – Established in 1953
  St. Mary's Church (Nassau)  – Established in 1852
  St. Mary's Church at Clinton Heights (Rensselaer)  – Established in 1952
  St. Mary of the Assumption Church (Waterford)  – Established in 1843; records of St. Ann's held here
  St. Michael's Church (Cohoes) (Polish) – Established in 1904
  St. Michael the Archangel Church (175 Williams Rd.; located in the Town of North Greenbush) – Established in 1874
  Transfiguration Parish – Established in 2010 from a merger of the two churches listed below:
  Church of the Holy Trinity (Schaghticoke)  – Established in 1845; formed in 2001 from a merger with St. John the Baptist (established in 1839), Our Lady of Good Counsel in Valley Falls (established in 1889), St. Monica's Church in Johnsonville (established in 1888)
  St. Bonaventure's (Speigeltown)  – Established in 1970
caption: Our Lady of Victory Church, Troy
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