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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.〔(The 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. ==Early life and education== Born Robert Peter Groeschel〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://franciscanfriars.com/wp-content/uploads/fatherbenedictgroeschelobituary.pdf )〕 on July 23, 1933, in Jersey City, New Jersey, he 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.〔 The following year, he was admitted to temporary profession of vows and given the religious name of Benedict Joseph, after a Franciscan saint, Benedict Joseph Labre. In later life he would often comment that he felt it significant that his patron saint in the order was most likely schizophrenic. Groeschel made his perpetual profession in 1954 and was ordained a priest in 1959. He received a master's degree in counseling from Iona College in 1964 and a Doctor of Education (D.Ed.) degree, with a specialty in psychology, from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1971. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benedict Groeschel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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