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Jesuit priests arrived as missionaries in the future Diocese of Rochester in the mid- 17th century, working with Native American tribes over the span of a few decades in such present-day communities as Victor, Bloom eld and Honeoye Falls. Some 300 years later, in 1954, the order returned to the area to launch McQuaid Jesuit High School. This development came about largely because of then-Bishop James E. Kearney’s high regard for the order.
Today area Jesuits remain synonymous with McQuaid, but the order’s ministry is not limited to the school. Jesuit priests provide sacramental assistance at Rochester-area parishes, assist with Sunday-evening liturgies at Nazareth College, work as chaplains at Monroe County Jail and oversee Catholic campus ministry at both Cornell University and Ithaca College.
SOCIETY OF JESUS (JESUITS)
SCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME
Posing in the chapel at McQuaid Jesuit High School
in 2015 were Fathers Edward Salmon (from left), superior of the local Jesuit community; John Carriero, who died in 2016; and Robert Reiser.
The School Sisters of Notre Dame was founded in 1833 in Bavaria. In 1854, the sisters arrived in Rochester and began establishing Catholic schools. More than a century later, the sisters founded Bishop Kearney High School in 1965 and Notre Dame Learning Center in 2004. The sisters now serving in Rochester
all work at Notre Dame Learning Center and belong to the Atlantic Midwest School Sisters of Notre Dame. Today the order numbers about 3,000 sisters ministering around the world, with approximately 900 living in communities in North America.
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