Benedict Groeschel
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The Very Rev. Father Benedict Joseph Groeschel, C.F.R. |
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| Founder and Community Servant | |
Groeschel in 2009
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| Elected | 1987 |
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| Ordination | 1959 |
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| Birth name | Robert Peter Groeschel |
| Born |
July 23, 1933 Jersey City, New Jersey, United States |
| Died | October 3, 2014 (aged 81) Totowa, New Jersey, United States |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Education | B.A. in religion, D.Ed. in psychology |
Benedict Joseph Groeschel, C.F.R. (July 23, 1933 – October 3, 2014) was an American Franciscan friar, Catholic priest, retreat master, author, psychologist, activist and television host. He hosted the television talk program Sunday Night Prime broadcast on the Eternal Word Television Network as well as several serial religious specials. He founded the Office for Spiritual Development for the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. He was Associate Director of the Trinity Retreat House for clergy and executive director of St. Francis House. He was professor of pastoral psychology at St. Joseph's Seminary in New York and an adjunct professor at the Institute for Psychological Sciences in Arlington, Virginia. He was one of the founders of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and among his close friends were Mother Teresa, Mother Angelica and Alice von Hildebrand.
Born Robert Peter Groeschel on July 23, 1933, in Jersey City, New Jersey, was the eldest of the six children of Edward Joseph Groeschel and Marjule Smith Groeschel.
Groeschel attended Catholic elementary and high school (Immaculate Conception High School in Montclair, New Jersey) and then in 1950 he entered the Capuchin Order's St. Felix Friary (later turned into the Good Shepherd Church of the United Brethren in Christ) in Huntington, Indiana. As a novice at St. Felix's Groeschel met and was deeply impressed by Venerable Solanus Casey. After nine months in Indiana, Groeschel completed his novitiate at the order's friary in the Detroit Province in 1951.
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