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Event

Silver anniversary of Father Joseph Herp’s ordination (1960)

Also Joseph Herp ordination anniversary

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
ErasModern era

Summary

Father Joseph Herp, who served as Beaver Island pastor from 1951 to 1959, was reported to have celebrated his twenty-fifth ordination anniversary at St. Anthony’s Church in Louisville on May 22, 1960.

Evidence and limits

The notice supplies a pastoral tenure and anniversary report but no ordination certificate, religious-order record, or complete biography.

Open questions

  • Which Franciscan and parish records confirm Herp’s ordination and Beaver Island service?

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, June 1960, “Anniversaries.”
    Reports Father Joseph Herp O.F.M.C., pastor on Beaver Island from 1951 to 1959, celebrating his silver ordination anniversary at St. Anthony’s Church in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 22. It does not provide an ordination record or full clerical biography.
    beaver_beacon · 1960-06_Beaver-Beacon