Happy 245th Anniversary

Saint Patrick Parish was founded on February 5, 1779 when Father Charles Sewell, S.J. a member of the Jesuit Missionaries of Sacred Heart Church, Conewago, Heidelberg Township in Adams County purchased land on Pomfret Street. This plot is now home to three structures: The Shrine Church, Saint Katherine Drexel Hall - Rectory, and the Parish Office Building that make up the Pomfret Street Complex. Mass was celebrated infrequently in the first log church built in 1784 for the few Catholics scattered throughout Cumberland Valley. Saint Patrick Church, Carlisle is the first church in America named in honor Ireland’s Patron Saint.