page_title: St. Charles Borromeo Church (North Hollywood)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: St. Charles Borromeo Church (North Hollywood) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Charles Borromeo Parish Hall (Old Church, built in 1937), in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
context_page_description: St. Charles Borromeo Church is a Catholic church and elementary school located at Moorpark and Lankershim in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is one of the oldest parishes in the San Fernando Valley dating back to 1921. It has long been a parish with celebrity members and was the site of funerals for Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, and Robert Urich among other notables
context_section_description: The parish was founded in 1921 with the purchase of an existing Methodist church structure at Weddington and Bakman.  The parish was known as Immaculate Conception Church until 1925 when it was renamed Saint Charles Borromeo.  Before the parish was established, Catholics in the central San Fernando Valley shared a priest with St. Robert Bellarmine (then known as Holy Trinity).  By 1936, the parish had outgrown the space on Weddington, and a parishioner named Goykes donated land on Moorpark.  A new church was built on Moorpark in 1937—the structure that is now the parish hall.  The church had a seating capacity of 600 and was styled after the San Carlos Mission in Carmel, California.
  In 1939, St. Charles Borromeo School opened in four portable bungalows and operated by five Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  A new permanent school opened in 1947 in a building with 14 classrooms, a cafeteria, library, music room, and auditorium.
  The parish continued to grow in the years after World War II, and in 1957, ground was broken for the current church.  The new church opened at Thanksgiving 1959 with a blessing from James Francis Cardinal McIntyre.
  St. Charles Borromeo served a wide swath of the San Fernando Valley for many years, but with the population growth in the Valley, additional parishes were carved out of the territy previously encompassed by St. Charles Borromeo.  Modern parishes that were carved out of St. Charles Borromeo include Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Sun Valley (1937), St. Francis de Sales in Sherman Oaks (1938), St. Finbar in Burbank (1938) and St. Patrick in North Hollywood (1948).
  The Rev. Msgr. Harry C. Meade was the pastor at St. Charles Borromeo for more than a quarter century starting in 1936.
caption: St. Charles Borromeo Parish Hall (Old Church)
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