St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral is a
Catholic parish located on the east side of
Camden, New Jersey
Camden is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Camden is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan area and is located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 2020 ...
,
United States. It serves as the
pro-cathedral of the
Diocese of Camden
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden is a Roman Catholic diocese of the Latin Church in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It consists of 62 parishes and about 475,000 Catholics in the Southern Jersey counties of Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumber ...
. It is one of two parishes in the city of Camden to be named St. Joseph. The other one is
St. Joseph Polish Catholic Church, which was established in 1891.
History
The parish began as a mission station in the early 1890s and was served by the
Franciscans from Sts. Peter and Paul Church.
The mission was started in what was known as the Boyce residence on Cooper Street, now 27th Street, in the town of Stockton. The first Mass was celebrated on February 7, 1892 in Wright’s Hall on Marlton Pike, near Federal Street. The parish itself was established the following year. The resolution to build a new church was passed on April 20, 1893 and John D’Arcy of Camden was chosen as the architect. It was built on the corner of North 25th and Howell Streets and was dedicated on December 16, 1893. The Rev. Alphonse Lehrscholl was assigned to be the first pastor. The church was damaged in a fire in October 1915 and was repaired. The building was abandoned in 1929 when the present school building was erected on Westfield Avenue, and it was torn down ten years later after it was declared a fire hazard.
The present church was built in the
Modern
Modern may refer to:
History
* Modern history
** Early Modern period
** Late Modern period
*** 18th century
*** 19th century
*** 20th century
** Contemporary history
* Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century
Phil ...
architectural style in 1952. The property had been the site of St. Patrick’s Cemetery. It was declared a
pro-cathedral as the main cathedral downtown, the
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, is rather small in size.
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On March 24, 1998 Romero Center Ministries was founded in the former convent.][ St. Joseph's would have been the main worship site. However, the proposed merger did not take place and Saint Joseph Pro-Cathedral remained a "stand alone" parish.
]
Gallery
File:Interior, St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral (Camden, New Jersey).jpg, Interior of St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral
File:Interior rear, St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral (Camden, New Jersey).jpg, Rear of St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral
File:Stained Glass left, St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral (Camden, New Jersey).jpg, Stained glass on the left side of St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral
File:Stained Glass right, St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral (Camden, New Jersey).jpg, Stained glass on the right side of St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral
File:Closeup, St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral (Camden, New Jersey).jpg, Closeup of the altar
See also
* List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States
* List of cathedrals in the United States
References
External links
Official Cathedral SiteSaint Joseph Pro-Cathedral School
- Catholic Partnership Schools
Diocese of Camden Official Site
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Christian organizations established in 1893
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1952
Roman Catholic churches in New Jersey
Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden
Modernist architecture in New Jersey
Churches in Camden County, New Jersey
Roman Catholic churches in Camden, New Jersey
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States
1893 establishments in New Jersey