Joseph John Rice

Joseph John Rice (December 6, 1871—April 1, 1938) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

[2][4] Rice was a professor of philosophy at St. John's Seminary in Boston until 1903, when he was tasked with erecting St. Peter's Parish in Northbridge, Massachusetts.

[3] In June 1923 the cornerstone was laid for a hospital on land in Burlington previously purchased for that purpose by Bishop DeGoesbriand.

Rice placed De Goesbriand Memorial Hospital under the care of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph.

[6] He was also confronted with a case of anti-Catholicism; in November 1925, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on the steps of St. Augustine's Church at Montpelier, Vermont.