Honoring the Priestly Golden Jubilee of

1956           July 1        2006

Brief Biography

Rev. Joseph Charles Henchey, CSS was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, not far from Boston, in June 2, 1930. He entered the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata on January 6, 1946, and was ordained a Stigmatine Priest in Rome, Italy, in July 1, 1956.

Fr. Henchey received a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Angelicum, in Rome, in 1973. He served in Rome teaching at the Pontifical University for over 20 years, as General Councilor of the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata (1970 - 1976 and 1988 - 1990), and also as Assistant Spiritual Director at the Pontifical North American College (1996 - 2002).

In 2002, returning to the United States, Fr. Henchey served as Assistant Spiritual Director at Blessed Pope John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, MA, until 2006, when he moved to Mundelein Seminary in Chicago, IL, as occupant of the Paluch Chair of Theology.  In the fall of 2009, he was appointed as Professor of Theology and Spiritual Director to the St. Joseph Seminary [Dunwoodie] in Yonkers, NY. He is also serving as weekend presider in the Stigmatine Parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in White Plains, NY.

He has also travelled widely giving retreats, courses and lectures to priests, religious and the laity.

For all his Stigmatine life he has been a student of St. Gaspar Bertoni, the founder of his congregation, and has published a website in his tribute, at www.st-bertoni.com.