Council # 6020 was founded on Dec. 5 1967, but changed its’ name to POPE JOHN PAUL I COUNCIL in 1988. Founded in Huntington Beach, we serve both the St Vincent de Paul and St Bonaventure parish communities. Currently our membership is over 330, but we always can use more good Catholic men!  

Brother Knights from Council #6020 have been serving both Parishes in many ways - serving as hospitality ministers or ushers or Eucharistic ministers or lectors at Sunday masses, serving coffee and donuts on Sunday, attending weekly or monthly Perpetual Adoration, volunteering for the Parish Festivals or Parish BBQs, helping with the Thanksgiving and Christmas food boxes or baskets, conducting a Christmas toy collection and party for needy kids, providing Friday night (Lenten) dinners, preparing pancake breakfasts and Italian sausage sandwiches for the church community, hosting a Casino Night fundraiser and actively supporting Pro-Life functions. 

Each year the Council sponsors a Seminarian Dinner, on the Saturday before Mother’s Day, providing $500 to $1000 scholarships to deserving Seminarians and Religious from our Parishes! Last year (2004), at our 23^rd Annual Seminarian Dinner, we were able to give eleven (11) such scholarships, totaling $9000. Over the last ten (10) years we have given 60 scholarships, totaling $45,000. 

Every year in October, our council supports the National 'MR' Drive (for the mentally handicapped children) by raising money through the giving away of tootsie rolls. We also support the Fairview Home for the mentally retarded with weekly visits by our Brother Knights. On Sundays, we help by taking the handicap people to Mass! 

In January we conduct the local 'Youth Free Throw' contest for National competition. Annually, we participate in the 'Special Olympics' for the handicapped kids, held in Los Angeles area. Each year we join other Knights’ councils in conducting a “Day of Sharing” – a mini-carnival for the developmentally disabled children and their families. We support fund raising programs that provide assistance to these children and their families. Of course, we will be in the annual Huntington Beach 4th of July Parade. 

As you can see we provide services and help,   across a very broad spectrum -- the needy, the poor, the youth, the ill, the mentally handicapped, the elderly, the handicapped, etc.  

Besides being a service organization, we are also a warm, friendly fraternal group, banded together to provide for the spiritual and material welfare of our membership. We are very “Family Oriented”, with many of our events, involving the spouses and family members!

 We need St Bonaventure men. We need St Vincent de Paul men! Do something good for yourself, your family and your community. Join “These Men they call Knights”! 

Whenever you see one of the Knights wearing his badge, or his Knight’s Jacket or Shirt,  introduce yourself, ask questions, and feel free to find out more about our Pope John Paul I Council #6020. 

For those who are interested, please complete the ‘Interested in the Knights’ form and return to either the St Bonaventure Parish Office or the St Vincent de Paul Parish Office.  OR click here for online form.   THANKS! 

You can contact our Membership Directors with any questions you may have.