Bishop visits Paterson parish
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March 21, 2019
BEACON PHOTO | RICH GIGLIFIRST SUNDAY OF LENT Bishop Serratelli made a pastoral visit to St. Bonaventure Church in Paterson March 10 where he celebrated Mass for the First Sunday of Lent. Concelebrating the Mass with the Bishop are Franciscan Father Francis McHugh, parochial vicar, and Franciscan Father Daniel Grigassy, St. Bonaventure’s pastor.Bishop visits St. Bonaventure Parish; celebrates Mass for First Sunday in LentPATERSON Bishop Serratelli made a pastoral visit to St. Bonaventure Church here and celebrated Mass for the First Sunday of Lent March 10.
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.
