Bishop administers Sacrament of Confirmation to teens at St. Bonaventure Parish
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May 19, 2022
BEACON PHOTO | RICH GIGLICONFIRMATION DAY Bishop Sweeney with the newly confirmed young people of St. Bonaventure Church in Paterson May 15. Pictured are (front row, from left) Lindsay Hewitt, Bruno Recupero, Stivet Salcedo and Conor Petersen, (second row, from left) Franciscan Father Robert Norton; Franciscan Father Paul Breslin; Deacon Juan Borges; Franciscan Father Frank McHugh; Teresa Gallo-Tomcho, director of religious formation; Deacon Joseph Balough; Deacon Michael Tomcho, catechist; Franciscan Father Daniel Grigassy, pastor, and Father Jared Brogan, diocesan director of worship.Bishop administers Sacrament of Confirmation to teens at St. Bonaventure ParishPATERSON Young people at St. Bonaventure Parish here received the Sacrament of Confirmation administered by Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney during his pastoral visit May 5, which also marked the Fifth Sunday of Easter.
St. Bonaventure’s history began when the Franciscan friars came to Paterson from Germany in 1876 and were given an abandoned Carmelite monastery built the previous year in the Stony Road section of Paterson. Bishop Corrigan advanced the mission to parish status in 1877. The church, on Ramsey Street and Danforth Avenue, was completed in 1880.
