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The Church of St. Joseph (commonly called St. Joseph's Church) is a Roman Catholic parish located in the Village of Bronxville in Westchester County, New York. Officially founded as a church of the Archdiocese of New York in 1922, the Church of St. Joseph consists of the parish church, adjacent parochial St. Joseph School, rectory, and parish center. It serves residents of Bronxville as well as residents of nearby neighborhoods in Eastchester and Yonkers. In addition to Sunday and daily masses, the church performs and prepares Catholics for the sacraments of baptism, first holy communion, confirmation, penance, matrimony, and anointing of the sick. It also conducts charitable and philanthropic efforts and a CCD (catechism) religious education program. St. Joseph's has a permanent chaplain to the nearby Lawrence Hospital Center. == History == The Church of St. Joseph began as a mission in Bronxville by neighboring Church of the Immaculate Conception of Tuckahoe in 1905. Having no dedicated structure, masses were celebrated in the ballroom of the illustrious Hotel Gramatan by Immaculate Conception pastor Fr. John McCormack who traveled by horse each Sunday. The first masses were attended by only seventeen families. In 1906, the mission purchased the no-longer-used Bronxville schoolhouse on the corner of Park Place and Kraft Avenue, converting it into St. Joseph's Chapel. The once-small Bronxville Catholic community grew rapidly. In 1922, the mission was elevated to an official parish of the archdiocese by Cardinal Patrick Hayes, Fr. Joseph L. McCann its first pastor. The church quickly outgrew its home and began construction on the present-day church building on the corner of Kraft Avenue and Cedar Street, having raised $50,000 over the preceding four years. The new building was designed by Yonkers architect William H. Jones in the English Gothic Revival style. The stone from which it was constructed was locally mined from quarries in Westchester. In 1927, the church was dedicated by Cardinal Hayes and was completed in 1928. The new pastor, Fr. Francis X. Scott oversaw the opening of the school in 1951. Monsignor Joseph Moore led the parish's transition following the Second Vatican Council. Under Monsignor Patrick J. Sheridan and Fr. James Connolly, the church and rectory were renovated and a pipe organ was installed in the church, as the staff was expanded. A parish center was constructed in 1986, which replaced the limited space of a previously-used house on Meadow Avenue. During their time of residence in Bronxville, the Kennedy family attended St. Joseph's Church. The young Ted Kennedy was an altar boy at St. Joseph's Church and was later married there by Cardinal Spellman. St. Joseph's celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1972 with Terence Cardinal Cooke and Monsignor Theodore E. McCarrick (later Cardinal Archbishop of Washington) in attendance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Church of St. Joseph (Bronxville, New York)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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