Joseph Farrell (priest) explained

Type:	priest
Honorific Prefix:	The Right Reverend, Monsignor
Joseph A. Farrell
Birth Date:	April 29, 1873
Birth Place:	Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Death Place:	Staten Island, New York
Module:	Child: yes Ordained: June 9, 1900

Monsignor Joseph A. Farrell (April 29, 1873 – June 13, 1960) was an Irish-American Catholic priest. He held various positions in the Archdiocese of New York, and was instrumental in the construction of several new parishes in the New York City borough of Staten Island.^[1] He became a priest in 1900, and Staten Island's dean of clergy in 1933, and a monsignor in 1935.^[2] On Staten Island, he was an early principal of St. Peter's Boys High School.

In 1961, Monsignor Farrell High School was dedicated and named in his honor. The Archbishop of New York at the time, Francis Cardinal Spellman, had written a congratulatory note to Farrell in 1959 on the 60th anniversary of Farrell's ordination, stating that "next high school on Staten Island will bear your honored name."^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of Parish . Church of St. Clare . February 7, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150207194339/http://www.stclaresi.com/about/history . February 7, 2015 . dead . The above information was taken from "St. Clare School's Golden Jubilee 1936 -1986" book produced by St. Clare Parish in 1986.. amended September of 2006 .
2. Web site: St. Peter's . Parish of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Saints Peter and Paul, and Assumption . October 7, 2023.
3. News: Lou . Bergonzi . June 5, 2011 . Monsignor Farrell - 50 years of shaping young men's lives . September 27, 2020 . . silive.com . en.