John J. Castelot

John J. Castelot, S.S. (August 26, 1916 – May 14, 1999) was an American Roman Catholic priest, Sulpician, teacher, and writer.

John J. Castelot

S.S.
ChurchRoman Catholic
DioceseRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
Orders
OrdinationMay 14, 1942
Personal details
Born(1916-08-28)August 28, 1916
DiedMay 14, 1999(1999-05-14) (aged 82)

Early life and studies

John J. Castelot was born in Bridgeport, on August 26, 1916.[1] He was ordained priest on May 14, 1942.[2] Later on he did graduate studies at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. and at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.[1] Fr. John Castelot, also known as Fr. Jack, was a Sulpician and priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit.[3]

Career

After his studies, John J. Castelot was teacher of Sacred Scripture, Greek, Hebrew, and Sacred Music at the St. John's Seminary, in Plymouth, Michigan, but he also taught at St Joseph's College, Mountain View, California and at the Sulpitian Novitiate in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] From 1972 he was a collaborator at St. Edith's Parish in Livonia, Michigan.[4]

Castelot Summer Scripture (now Castelot Scripture), a conference named in honor of Fr. John (Jack) Castelot, started at St. John's Seminary in 1996.[5] Fr. John died on May 14, 1999.

Works

Castelot wrote the three volumes of Meet the Bible![6] and a shorter commentary on the Holy Scripture.[7] For more than 20 years he wrote a column on the Bible for the "Faith Alive!" a religious education series distributed by Catholic News Service. He wrote the voices "Gentiles", "St. Peter Apostle", and "Gerard Van Noort" for the The New Catholic Encyclopedia. For The Jerome Biblical Commentary (1968), he wrote, in collaboration with Aelred Cody, the chapter "Religious institutions of Israel".

References
  1. "Father Castelot To Conduct Annual Priests' Retreat". The Catholic Transcript. June 3, 1966. p. 14. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  2. "Scripture scholar Father Castelot dies". Catholic San Francisco. June 18, 1999. p. 22. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  3. Bird, Katharine (January 30, 1985). "The Priest" (PDF). Courier-Journal: 1 of Faith Today supplement.
  4. "St. Edith Catholic Church History". www.stedith.org. St Edith Catholic Church. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  5. Brochure of the 2015 edition of the Castelot Summer Scripture http://spotidoc.com/doc/991734/brochure---castelot-summer-scripture
  6. Castelot, John J. (1960). Meet the Bible!. 3 volumes: V.1: An introduction to the Bible, V. 2: The Old Testament, V.3, The New Testament. Baltimore: Helicon Press.
  7. Castelot, John J. (1962). God so loved the World (A commentary on the Bible). Notre Dame: Fides. Foreword by Leo J. Trese.

External resources
  1. Castelot Summer Facebook page
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