About

For Christmas Day 1944, the Most Reverend Hugh C. Boyle, Bishop of Pittsburgh, gave his permission for the first Mass to be celebrated in the rural community of Glade Mills, Pennsylvania. Father Daniel A. Lawless, Mission Confraternity Director, celebrated the Mass for approximately sixty persons in the backroom of the Roadside Inn. This was the first step toward establishing a Mission for the Catholic population in rural southeastern Butler County. Land was purchased in May 1945, and the Mission received the name “Church of the Holy Sepulchre” and Holy Sepulcher Parish was born.  Since then, the Parish has grown to serve approximately 1200 families.  In addition to a new church building, the Parish operates a school for Pre-kindergarten through eighth grade students.