Year | Event |
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1913 | Ascension established as a mission of Saint Clement’s, Lansdowne |
1922 | Father Francis J. Flanigan appointed first resident Pastor |
1927 | New church-school-hall building completed |
1929 | Convent completed; Sisters of Providence arrived |
1936 | Father Joseph A. Ells appointed second Pastor |
1938 | Father Casmir Keydash, the first Associate Pastor |
1942 | Father Keydash appointed Army Chaplain |
1942 | Father Anthony Mertz, Associate Pastor |
1946 | Father I. Mitchell Cartwright, third Pastor |
1949 | Father Joseph M. Riordan, fourth Pastor |
1950 | Father John P. Barbernitz, Associate Pastor |
1956 | Father Alphonse G. Rose, Associate Pastor |
1958 | Father Gerard W. Spraker, fifth Pastor |
1961 | New school and temporary church completed |
1964 | Father George A. Limmer, Associate Pastor |
1968 | Father Stanley Janaites, Associate Pastor |
1973 | Father John Bostwick, Associate Pastor |
1975 | Father John Mike, Associate Pastor |
1976 | Father E. Gerard Huesman, sixth Pastor |
1981 | Father Robert F. Lentz, Associate Pastor |
1983 | Betty Van Order, first Pastoral Associate |
1984 | Sisters of Providence departed |
1985 | School Sisters of Notre Dame and the Benedictine Sisters arrive; New church completed |
1986 | Father Manuel R. Roman, seventh Pastor; Temporary church renovated into parish hall and named Brewer Hall |
1990 | Sr. Mary Catherine Lewandowski, Pastoral Associate |
2001 | Bell tower completed |
2003 | Brewer Hall renovated and the school air-conditioned |
2004 | Deacon Tom Yannuzzi assigned as first deacon |
2005 | Father Adam J. Parker, Administrator |
2006 | Father Adam J. Parker, eighth Pastor |
2008 | Father John A. Williamson, ninth Pastor |
2009 | Mary Beth Barnes, Deacon Thomas Yannuzzi, Pastoral Associates |
2010 | Ascension School closed |
2013 | Deacon Robert Smith assigned as Deacon; Robert Sutliff, Pastoral Associate |
2021 | Father Dale Picarella, tenth Pastor |