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The NYPD on Monday honored 46 members who lost their lives to COVID-19 with a solemn service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Ahead of a memorial Mass for family and friends of the victims, officers in dress blues stood on the front steps of the famed Manhattan church while Lt. Jamel Hodges read aloud the names of each member who died of coronavirus-related illnesses.

Hodges read each name following a moment of silence.

NYPD trumpeters played the hymn “Nearer, My God, To Thee,” before Cardinal Timothy Dolan presided over the Mass for the fallen members.

The 46 NYPD civilian and uniformed officers died as a result of the bug in the months since the coronavirus pandemic first plagued New York City in March.

“Today we honor 46 good and great New Yorkers, 46 men and women, uniformed and civilians who gave so much to this city, 46 people who did what everyday people don’t do — answer that call to a higher service,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told mourners inside the church.

“And whether their work was on the beat or behind the scenes, they all protected us, they all served us, they all gave to this city so much,” Hizzoner said. “Because of these 46 good souls, we were safer, we were better.”

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea also spoke during the service.

“In their memory, we will carry on the best tradition of the NYPD. We will forge ahead, we will persevere and we will continue to vow to never forget our loved ones,” said Shea.

The commissioner explained that the 46 members include 13 school safety agents, 10 traffic enforcement agents, six detectives, three custodial assistants, three communications technicians, a police officer, a chief, a principal administrative associate, a police administrative aide, a senior police administrative aide and and six members from the auxiliary unit —  three officers, a captain, lieutenant and sergeant.

“At this time last year, the headlines we see every day now simply would have been unthinkable,” Shea said.

“More than 200,000 have died on American soil of a virus that months ago was completely unknown to us,” he noted. “Around the world more than 1 million lives have been lost.

“Truly this is an ongoing international tragedy that has changed nearly every aspect of our lives. Here in New York City we have been especially hard hit, but the figures represent so much more,” Shea continued.

“They represent real lives, real people … who have left behind devastated families and unfinished legacies,” said Shea.

Jannie Poullard, whose traffic agent brother-in-law Richard Austin, 67, died of the virus, was among those who turned out for the service.

“He was a great addition to our family. He always had a smile. He was very popular with the traffic enforcement,” Poullard said of Austin, who passed away in April.

“He always went to work early. He was with the traffic patrol for a very long time. Very good guy, and so we miss him dearly,” she said.

Kiara and Andrea Quinlan lost both their uncle Jason Lewis, also a traffic enforcement officer, and their retired NYPD cop dad to the virus a week and a half apart.

“It’s been very hard for the family,” Kiara said. “We’ve just been trying to keep the family together, just support everybody because it’s a very tough time for all of us.”

Her sister Andrea said the memorial service “at least allows me to get some closure that I would not have necessarily been able to get due to COVID” since “we couldn’t even have a funeral service for our loved ones.”

COVID-19 has so far killed more than 23,800 city residents — confirmed and probable — and sickened more than 240,000 across the five boroughs.