Where am I going?

Those of you who are Catholic and reside in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in KS are probably already aware of my parish assignment. However, dozens of my readers are not within the archdiocese (or this country for that matter) so I wanted to announce my assignment and give you a little background on the parish.

On Tuesday, May 29th Archbishop Naumann met with me at the Chancery Offices and officially assigned me to Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Olathe, KS. We could not discuss our assignment publicly until June 9th and since I left that weekend for my Branson vacation I haven't had a chance to blog about my assignment.

We take our assignments on July 13, 2007 so I have been spending some time learning about my parish, visiting the campus and slowly moving some of my stuff up there. So, over the next few days I am going to give you some information on my parish.

First a little history about Olathe. Prince of Peace was established in 1979. It was split from St. Paul parish as more and more people built homes in the Olathe area. Olathe is a suburb of Kansas City located 20 miles from downtown. Its population is 122,000 and it is the 5th largest city in Kansas. In 1979, the population was 37,258 but that was 20,000 more (a 107% increase) than 1970 when the population was only 17,917. However, it was evident that as more and more people moved to the suburbs the population was going to explode in the coming years. This was very true and by 1990, the population was 63,440 and in 2000 it was 92,932.

Tomorrow I will begin looking at the parish history itself and then I want to talk about the parish as it is today and what type of activities we have. Until next time...God bless.

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