page_title: Church of the Holy Paraclete
section_title: Beliefs
hierarchical_section_title: Church of the Holy Paraclete / Beliefs
caption_attribution_description: English: Image from Good Friday Mass 2011 at the Church of the Holy Paraclete
context_page_description: The Chapel of the Holy Spirit is a church in Rhode Island, United States. The church was formerly named Church of the Holy Paraclete. In May 2016, the parish council voted to change the name of the church to an English translation. The theology of the parish is the same. Holy Paraclete means holy advocate or holy helper. In Christianity, the term most commonly refers to the Holy Spirit. The Church has Spanish Colonial architecture mixed with New England Fieldstone. It is a mission church in the tradition of the Old Catholic Church founded in America by Fr. Charles Chiniquy and Bishop Joseph Rene Vilatte of the American Catholic Church. This community is not in union with the Episcopal Church, the Union of Utrecht, or any of the so-called Episcopi vagantes. The community strives after union with the Union of Utrecht, through the help of the Episcopal Church. The Mission Church houses a reliquary with the altar bells of Saint Damien of Molokai and a 17th-century Spanish Colonial Tabernacle.
  The Chapel of the Holy Spirit is in Rhode Island. The parish was founded in 2009 by the Little Brothers of Jesus Caritas, an ecumenical community following the inspiration of Bl.
caption: Pentecost Sunday 2011
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