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The Church of the Gesú is a Roman Catholic chapel and former parish church located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Founded in 1868 by Burchard Villiger, the church was the center of several Jesuit educational institutions, including St. Joseph's Preparatory School, St. Joseph's University, and the Gesú School.
The church's exterior. Old St. Joseph's Church was founded by Joseph Greaton (1679–1753), an English Jesuit who came to Philadelphia from Maryland in 1729 to establish a mission. [1] He originally celebrated mass in his house at 321 Willings Alley. Father Greaton built the first chapel in 1733, almost certainly a house-chapel attached to his ...
St. Joe's college started on September 15, 1851, [17] when 36 students began classes in a building adjacent to Old St. Joseph's Church Roman Catholic church on Willings Alley, between South 3rd and South 4th Streets and Walnut and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School, known as "St. Joe’s Prep" or simply "The Prep", is an urban, private, Catholic, college preparatory school run by the Society of Jesus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The school was founded in 1851 from the Old St. Joseph's Church in the city's Society Hill neighborhood. [3]
701 Gaul St, Philadelphia Founded in 1905 [123] Old St. Joseph's: 321 Willings Alley, Philadelphia Founded in 1733, current church dedicated in 1739. It is the oldest Catholic church in any urban area in the United States. [124] [125] Old St. Mary's: 248 S. 4th St, Philadelphia Founded in 1763 [126] [127] Our Lady of Mount Carmel 2319 S. 3rd St ...
Sourin Hall, named in honor of Rev. Edward Sourin, S.J., an early Philadelphia Jesuit, who fought to establish Catholic education in a time when Catholicism found little acceptance; a four-story, co-ed hall built in 1980 which accommodates 225 students; the Student Health Center is located on the ground floor
Mount Saint Joseph Academy, commonly called The Mount, in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, is a Philadelphia-area all-female, Catholic, college preparatory school within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. It was founded in 1858 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph.
It is the designated parish school of St. Augustine Church in Old City, [40] Old St. Joseph's Church in Society Hill, [41] and Old St. Mary's Church in Society Hill. [42] St. Matthew School (West Mayfair) In 2012 the archdiocese considered closing the school, but kept it open after the school community appealed. [37]