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PARISH HISTORY AND MILESTONES                                                                    Early Photos



Year
Event
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
1985
School Sisters of Notre Dame and the Benedictine Sisters arrive; New church completed
1986
Father Manuel R. Roman, Ph.D, 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
2005
Father Adam J. Parker, Administrator
2006 Father Adam J. Parker, eighth Pastor



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