Bishop Transfers Three Priests Also Creates New Cape Parish /
Immaculate Conception Churc.h in East Brewster, long a mission of St. Joan of Arc Parish, Orleans, haa has been erected to the status of a Parish by the Most Reverend Bishop. Selected to head thin new parish,' which will assume that title next Wednesday is Rev. Joseph Nolin, M.S.
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Bishop Approves Pastor For New Bedford Church The Most Reverend Bishop has announced his approval of the appointment of Rev. Seraphin Stachowicz, O.F.M. ~: Conv., by Very Rev. George M. Roskwitalski, O.F.M.Conv., }'ATHER NOLIN. M.S. Minister Provincial of the Franciscan Friars Minor ConFather Nolin, a Missionary of ventual, to be pastor of. Our LaSalette, will be the first mem- Lady of Perpetual Help ber of his Congregation to head a parish in the Fall River Dio- Church, New Bedford. Fr. cese, although the LaSalette Stachowicz succeeds Rev. Fathers have houses in both East Brewster and Attleboro. The LaSalette Fathers are, " thereforE;, no strangers to Cape Cod, and they have long supplied week-end and Summer assistance to many of the Cape parIshes. The new parish, to be known , lIS Immaculate Conception Parish, is the 109th parish in the Diocese and the ten th to be established by Bishop 路Connolly. Parishioners of the new parish Will be those persons living Turn to Page Eighteen
Adolph 'Banach, O,F,M.Conv., a classmate and friend, who died April 2. A n.ative of Chicopee Falls, Father Stachowicz has been serving as pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Church, Athol Springs, N. Y., since 1948, where he built a new church, grade school, convent and rectory. Born in 1903, Father Stachowicz attended parochial schools in Chicopee and Springfield and entered the Franciscan Fathers in 1921. He studied in. Detroit, Rome and Assisi and was' 01'-
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dained in Ita~ in 1927., , Father served as assistant ill parishes in Holyoke and Baltimore and spent 13 year.s on the mission band.
Father Hogan PortChaplain Th.e M.ost Reverend Bishop haS announced the appoint-路 merit of Rev. John F. Hogan of New Bedford' to be Port
NEW PORT CIHIAPLAIN: ,Rev. John F. Hogan, right, newly-appointed Port Chaplain for the Diocese, is congratulated at the New Bedford docks by Harbormaster'Larry Chongarlides, left, and Harbor Pilot Capt. Jack, Saunders; eenter, as he discusses his new post with'them. '
Chaplain for the Diocese of Fall River for the Apostleship of the Sea. ;Father Hogan is Director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau of New Bedford and the Cape and 'Director of St. Mary's Home. The Apostleship of the Sea is a unit of the National 路Catholic Welfare Conference, the central administrative board of the bishops of the United States. ~urpose of the Apostleship of , the. Sea is to assist those who earn their living on the water by providing facilities in port for .the benefit of their spiritual lives and their. social and cuItur~11 well-being. Sunday, May 7, has been designated by the national group and by . Bishop Connolly for the Diocese of Fall River as the day on which the faithful of the Church in the United States will ceall to mind the rieeds of those whose iife and labor is ~pent on . the seas.
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The transfer of one pastor, the appointment of au. administrator and the transfer of an assistant are an-. nounced today from the Chancery Office by the Most Reverend Bishop. Rev. Henri J. Charest, pastor of Holy Rosary Church, New Bedford, becomes pastor of St. Matthew's Church, F a II River, succeeding the late Rev. Aurelien L. Moreau who died March 12. Rev. Ernest R. Bessette, assistant at Notre Dame Church, Fall River, becomes administrator of Holy Rosary parish, New Bedford, succeeding Father Charest. Rev. Adrien E. Bernier, assistant at St. Matthew's, Fall River, replaces Father Bessette at Notre Dame, Fall River. Father Charest Father Charest, new pastor of the Fall River parish, was born Jan. 9, 1908, in Fall River, the son of the late Albert and Regina Fortier Charest. He studied philosophy and theology at the Quebec. Seminary and was ordained in the, Semiqary Chapel on May 1, 1932. For the next five years, Father Charest taught at the Quebec Seminary and then became assistant at Notre Dame Parish in F'all River. He served in that capacity; in St. Joseph's and st. Anthony's Parishes in New Bedford and became administrator of Holy Rosary 'Church on Feb. IO, 1960. Father BesseUe . The new administrator of Holy Rosary Parish, New Bedford,' Turn to Page Eighteen
Drive Group Plans 1961 Appeal
The General Meeting to plan the 1961 Catholic Charities Appeal in the Diocese will be held Monday after-. noon at 3 at Jesus-Mary Academy in Fall River. In attendance at the meeting will be all pastors, assistants not needed for pressing parochial services, parish chairmen and 'trustees, and other interested members of the laity. Invitations have also been extended to an past lay chairmen of the AppeaL The Appeal this year will take place in the 109 parishes of the Diocese from May 7 to 17. Special gifts will begin on April 26Lay chairman of the Appeal this year-:--:which coincides with Bishop Connolly's tenth anniversary as Ordinary of the Diocese -is Joseph E. Fernandes of Norton. Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, is Chairman and Rt. Rev. Raymond T. Considine is Director. Parishes, as usual, will suspend fund-raising activities during the Appeal, starting April 23. .
New Bedford Nun Will Mark G~lden Jub.Uee T.his Sunday
. SIster Mary of St. OlIva, C.S.C. wIll be the most surprised nun in New Bedford this Sunday. She knows it's her golden jubilee but what the principal of St. Anthony of Padua grammar school doesn't know is that Rt. Rev. Msgr. Albert Berube, pastor of St.. Anthony's, will celebrate a Solemn High Mass for her at 11' in the parish ch.urch. Scores of parishioners, former and present pupils will be ift attendance, all with the purpose of. wishing Sister St. Oliva well. She has been principal of St. Anthony's for 27 years and for five years previously was at Sacred Heart School, also New Bedford. Previous Service was in New Hampshire. Mass will not end the day's festivities for the jubilarian. In the evening, the 600 pupils of St. Anthony's are dedicating their annual play to her. Between Mass and curtain time for the play, her 40 fellow-religious of the Congregation of the Holy Cross and the Seven Dolors at St. Anthony's convent will have their own celebration for her. More festivities will follow ift ,May, when the community will , Turn to Page Eighteen
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