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| Formation | 1979 |
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| Headquarters | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
President | David Moss |
| Website | https://www.hebrewcatholic.net/ |
The Association of Hebrew Catholics (AHC) is an international organisation of lay Catholics headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, that seeks to preserve the Jewish identity of Catholics of Jewish origin within the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1979 by Carmelite priest Elias Friedman and Holocaust survivor Andrew Sholl, both converted to Roman Catholicism from Judaism.
History
[edit]The Association of Hebrew Catholics was founded by Elias Friedman and Andrew Sholl. Friedman, born Jacob Friedman in 1916 in South Africa to a Jewish family, converted to Catholicism in 1943 while serving as a doctor in the South African Medical Corps. Four years later, in 1947, he formally entered the Carmelite order. He was ordained a priest six years later, in 1953, and entered the Stella Maris Monastery on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel, a year later, in 1954.