WINDSOR TERRACE — From humble beginnings in the parlors of dedicated laypeople, the diocese’s outreach to Black Catholics has become one of the largest and most vibrant ethnic ministries in the United States.
Ministry to African American Catholics in the Diocese of Brooklyn has its roots in 1915 when Jules DeWeever formed the “Colored Catholic Club” in Bedford-Stuyvesant for the purpose of establishing a “Church for Colored Catholics … in this diocese …”
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