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(Included in this history are excerpts from "History of St. Joseph Church: 1868-1968", compiled by Mrs. Henry J. LeCluyse.) St. Joseph Parish
From a beginning as humble as the life of the man for whom it was named, St. Joseph Catholic Church in Shawnee, Kansas, was founded in 1868 with the building of a simple frame church about 30 by 50 feet. It has steadily grown and prospered and now occupies a prominent place in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas and the community.
Read on..... History of St. Joseph Catholic SchoolsSt. Joseph Catholic Grade School is housed in the St. Joseph Education Center at Johnson Drive and Bond. It is part of a complex of buildings that includes St. Joseph Catholic Church, a Perpetual Adoration Chapel, rectory, the Early Education Center in the former St. Joseph High School building, and a Parish Service Center in renovated classrooms in the old grade school building.
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History of St. Joseph Catholic Church