Joseph Farrell (priest)

Monsignor Joseph A. Farrell (April 29, 1873 – June 13, 1960) was an Irish-American Catholic priest. He held various positions in the Archdiocese of New York, and was instrumental in the construction of several new parishes in the New York City borough of Staten Island. He became a priest in 1900, and Staten Island's dean of clergy in 1933, and a monsignor in 1935. On Staten Island, he was an early principal of St. Peter's Boys High School.

In 1961, Monsignor Farrell High School was dedicated and named in his honor. The Archbishop of New York at the time, Francis Cardinal Spellman, had written a congratulatory note to Farrell in 1959 on the 60th anniversary of Farrell's ordination, stating that "next high school on Staten Island will bear your honored name."