History Of Our Parish

We are an active and dynamic Catholic parish of over 100 families of all age groups and languages.

“In 1958 thirty families donated labor to turn a former store on Main Street into St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel. Bishop Pursley offered the first Mass there on August 3, 1958. The parish was a mission of St. Bernard, Wabash, and its pastor, Rev. Robert Zahn. Manchester University’s presence in the community influenced the chapel’s naming for the theologian and apologist. Rev. Ray Balzer became resident pastor in August 1963. The parish built a church at a new site that was dedicated on April 25, 1965”

(Worthy of the Gospel of Christ, by Jospeh M. White, 2007. 397)

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