Diocese of Buffalo puts St. Jude Center up for sale

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Diocese of Buffalo has announced another property it will put up for sale in the city of Buffalo.

The St. Jude Center on Ellicott Street has been put up for sale. It sits on a half-acre lot with an 18-car parking lot on the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus. It is also a neighboring building to the Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the Kevin Guest House.

The center was first purchased in the late 1960s to serve as a professional pastoral ministry in the diocese.

In the advertisement, the sale includes the center adjoining the shed which serves as a parish chapel. It also has living quarters with original fittings, including five marble fireplaces and large pocket doors.

The St. Jude Shrine will be moved to St. Joseph Cathedral on Franklin Street, according to the Diocese of Buffalo in a news release.

The St. Jude property is listed with Howard Hanna commercial brokers: Timothy Hourihan and David Doerr. The sale is currently listed at $1.5 million. Brokers can be contacted at (716)-856-7107.

Consult the list by clicking here.

St. Jude’s joins other listings such as the Catholic Center, Christ the King Seminary and the Newman Center at the State University at Buffalo as diocesan properties currently for sale.

The center itself has since posted on its social media pages following the news going on sale: “If you weren’t at the meeting and don’t already know, the diocese will be setting up the center St. Jude. for sale If ever we needed the Patron Saint of Hope and Impossible Causes, it’s now”

The news also comes a week after the diocese announced it would merge 34% of its churches to address its financial woes. To read more, click here.