Holy Redeemer Parish is a very warm and loving community with active organizations, a beautiful church receptive to well-planned liturgies as well as quiet prayer, a school noted for its excellent quality of education, and most of all, caring people. It is located in the state of Maryland, where the first Catholics settled in the United States; in Prince George’s County, where John Carroll, the first Catholic Bishop of America, was born in 1735; in the Berwyn District (now the City of College Park), where people since the 1880s have been committed to serving God and educating their children in the Catholic faith.
Important Dates
1886 - Catholic Mission Church established
1910 - Holy Redeemer Mission established (mission of St. Jerome Catholic Church)
1912 - Holy Redeemer Church cornerstone laid (now Fealy Hall)
1922 - Named Holy Redeemer Parish
Rev. William A Cahill, first Pastor
1927 - Rev. Leo Fealy, second Pastor
1931 - Holy Redeemer School opens under the leadership of the Sisters of Providence
1941 - A convent for the Sisters of Providence is purchased
1953 - New Holy Redeemer Church cornerstone laid (present location)
1961 - Rev. John L. Bailey, third Pastor
Rev. Leo Fealy, Pastor Emeritus
1963 - Rev. Michael J. Farrell, fourth Pastor
1972 - Rev. Raymond Moriarty, fifth Pastor
1974 - Rev. Donald Kelly, sixth Pastor
1985 - Rev. Msgr. W. Ronald Jameson, seventh Pastor
1992 - Rev. William F. X. Berry, eighth Pastor
2005 - Rev. George A. Wilkinson, Jr., ninth Pastor
2012 - Celebration of Holy Redeemer Parish’s 100th Jubilee
Celebration of Holy Redeemer School’s 80th Jubilee
2014 - Rev. Mark L. Smith, tenth Pastor
2022 - Rev. Robert W. Golas, eleventh Pastor