Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Northeast Deanery Consolidation Plan revealed

The plan for the Northeast County Deanery is to reduce 25 parishes to 10.

The South City Deanery proposal has not yet been made public.

Hopefully, we will not experience the same problems that the Boston Archdiocese is going though (church sit-ins, etc).

According to the Post Dispatch:
Combine Transfiguration, St. Aloysius and Our Lady of Loretto parishes in the Spanish Lake area into a single parish under a new name at Our Lady of Loretto, 11725 Bellefontaine Road. St. John Neumann School, an area school on the Loretto grounds, would be kept or merged with another school south of Interstate 270.

Combine St. Jerome, St. Pius X, St. Catherine of Alexandria, Our Lady of Good Counsel and Corpus Christi parishes in the Jennings-Bellefontaine Neighbors area into a single parish under a new name at Good Counsel, 1134 St. Cyr Road. The school at Corpus Christi would be merged into the one at Good Counsel, possibly also with St. John Neumann School.

Combine St. Dismas, Our Lady of Fatima, St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Christopher in the Florissant area into a single parish under a new name at St. Dismas, 2650 Parker Road. The school at Fatima would be merged into the one at St. Thomas.

Combine St. Bartholomew, Sts. John and James, Good Shepherd and St. Sebastian in the Kinloch-Ferugson area into a new parish under a new name at Good Shepherd, 1050 Smith Avenue. Good Shepherd's school would be merged into the one at Sts. John and James.

Merge North American Martyrs into Sacred Heart in Florissant, keeping Sacred Heart's school, and merge Our Lady of Mercy into St. Martin de Porres in Hazelwood.

Preserve St. Ferdinand, St. Sabina, St. Norbert and St. Angela Merici parishes and their schools in the Florissant area, and maintain Our Lady of Guadalupe in Cool Valley as a parish for Hispanic Catholics. Guadalupe's school would be merged into the combined one at Sts. John and James.
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