Welcome to the website for friends and alumni of the St. Timothy School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Where is St. Timothy?
St. Timothy is located in the heart of Philadelphia at 3033 Levick Street (at least I think it is, based on very rapid Internet research)

St. Tim’s History at a Glance

• 1928 – St. Timothy Parish was created by Fr. Brady in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1929 – In the year of the Great Depression, two brave Sisters of Saint Joseph and the parishioners of Saint Timothy’s founded a school in a converted delicatessen at the corner of Sackett and Barnett Streets in Philadelphia
• 1930 – Building A was built
• 1954 – Building B was built to welcome the first children of the post-war Baby Boomers.
• 1960 – The growth continued with the erection of Building C.
• 9000 St. Timothy alumni have enjoyed the gift of a Catholic education

Who is St. Timothy?

Timothy (whose Greek name means to fear or to honor God) was a first-century Christian bishop who died about AD 80. He is venerated as a saint by Christians honoring that rite.

Timothy was Paul of Tarsus’s companion on many of his journeys. His mother, Eunice, and his grandmother, Lois, are noted as eminent for their piety (2 Tim 1:5). We know nothing of his father but that he was a Greek (Acts 16:1). Timothy is first mentioned at the time of Paul’s second visit to Lystra (16:2), where he probably resided, and where it seems he was converted during Paul’s first visit to that place (1 Tim 1:2; 2 Tim 3:11). Paul, having been impressed by his “own son in the faith”, arranged that he should become his companion (Acts 16:3), and personally circumcised him because his mother was of the Jewish faith, so that he might be accepted by the Jews. He was ordained (1 Tim 4:14), and went with Paul in his journey through Phrygia, Galatia and Mysia; also to Troas and Philippi and Berea (Acts 17:14). Then he followed Paul to Athens, and was sent by him with Silas on a mission to Thessalonica (17:15; 1 Thess 3:2). He then went to Corinth (1 Thess 1:1; 2 Thess 1:1) with Paul. He was next reported with Paul at Ephesus (Acts 19:22), when he was sent on a mission to Macedonia. He accompanied Paul afterwards into Syria (Acts 20:4) and then Iudaea Province, where he was with him for some time. When Paul was a prisoner at Rome, Timothy joined him (Phlm 1:1), where it appears he also suffered imprisonment (Heb 13:23). During Paul’s second imprisonment, he wrote to Timothy asking him to rejoin him as soon as possible, and to bring with him certain things he had left at Troas—his cloak and parchments (2 Tim 4:13).

According to later tradition, Paul ordained Timothy as Bishop of Ephesus in the year 65, where he served for 15 years. In the year 80, Timothy tried to halt a pagan procession of idols, ceremonies and songs. In response to his preaching of the Gospel, the angry pagans beat him, dragged him through the streets and stoned him to death. In the 4th century, his relics were transferred to the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople. The Catholic church also numbers Timothy among the 70 disciples sent out by Jesus to preach the Gospel.

Two books of the New Testament bear his name: I Timothy and II Timothy. These are traditionally believed to have been written by the Apostle Paul to Timothy.