Tags: Diocese of Venice

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Retreat and Spirituality Center in Venice and the Campo San Jose Retreat Center in Lake Placid open.

Bishop Nevins offers Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish as site for negations for migrant workers; Florida Youth for Life Congress held in Ellenton; statewide workshop for Parish nurses and Pastors held at Epiphany Cathedral Parish; St. Vincent de Paul Society of Naples dedicates Ozanam Center.

St. Columbkille Parish Church dedicated; first class graduates from Rice School.

Diocese celebrates 15 years as a Diocese; St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in Parrish founded as a Parish and Church dedicated; St. Michael the Archangel Parish church on Siesta Key rededicated, St. Agnes Mission in Naples was established; Hispanic Services of Catholic Charities opens offices in LaBelle and Bonita Springs.

 

St. Joseph the Worker Parish Church in Moore Haven dedicated; St. Finbarr Mission in East Naples dedicated; St. Elizabeth Seton Parish Church in Naples dedicated, Catholic Charities develops Diocese Disaster Response Program.

Dreams Are Free School in Sarasota established; Catholic Charities Refugee/Resettlement Program expanded to Naples, Fort Myers, Venice and Sarasota; U.S. government grant provides funding for establishment of HIV/AIDS housing program in Sarasota.

Saint John XXIII in Fort Myers, Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Osprey and Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Bradenton founded as a Parishes; St. Rose of Lima Mission in Clewiston and Father Anglim Academy at Dreams Are Free in Fort Myers established; Bishop Nevins Academy in Sarasota opens for St. Martha School and Dreams Are Free Academy; first Kristallnacht Convocation with Catholic/Jewish Dialogue Committee of Southwest Florida.

Our Lady of the Angels Parish multi-purpose facility in Bradenton dedicated.

Diocese celebrates 20 years as a Diocese; Hurricanes Charley, Francis and Jeanne strike Southwest Florida causing extensive damage to the region leaving thousands homeless and seriously damaging St. Isabel Parish on Sanibel, Sacred Heart Parish in Punta Gorda and St. Paul Parish in Arcadia; new Our Lady of Miraculous Medal Parish church in Bokeelia, St. Katharine Drexel Parish church in Cape Coral and St. Padre Pio Shrine at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish in Sarasota dedicated; St. Therese Mission in North Fort Myers founded.

Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma strike Southwest Florida doing extensive damage and leaving thousands homeless; Saint John XXIII Parish church dedicated.