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 |