About St. Jerome Parish

We are a welcoming Catholic community, committed to growing in our relationship with Jesus Christ through prayer, the Sacraments, and service to our neighbors. Founded in the spring of 1894 and located at 1709 West Lunt Avenue, St. Jerome.

St. Jerome was born is Dalmatia in about 340 A.D. In Rome, where he was baptized at the age of 18, he studied his faith and the living languages of his era, especially Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. After years of study, Jerome set out for Palestine, where he spent some years in seclusion and prayer. He was ordained in 380, and then settled in Bethlehem where he devoted himself to the task of translating the Old and New Testaments from Hebrew and Greek into Latin. This Vulgate Edition was welcomed by his contemporaries, for Latin was then the universal language. St. Jerome died in Bethlehem in 420. He was later named Confessor (one who has given heroic testimony to the faith) and Doctor of the Church (a writer known for his brilliant exposition and skillful defense of doctrine).

His feast day is September 30.