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1659 | Diocese of Quebec established |
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1789 | Diocese of Baltimore established |
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1810 | Diocese of Bardstown established |
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1827 | Diocese of St. Louis established |
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1834 | Diocese of Vincennes established |
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1844 | Diocese of Chicago established |
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1949 | Diocese of Joliet-in-Illinois established |
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April 2, 1956 | Father Thomas B. O'Keefe appointed founding pastor |
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June 15, 1956 | Public announcement by Bishop Martin D. McNamara that Fr.
O'Keefe is to be founding pastor of new parish |
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June 24, 1956 | First Parish Mass - celebrated in Emerson School |
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July 5, 1956 | New Ladies Organization - forerunner of C.C.W. |
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August 22, 1956 | Possession of Rectory taken |
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December 9, 1956 | Ground-Breaking for new church building |
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April 21, 1957 | Cornerstone Ceremony for church building |
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September 22, 1957 | Mary Queen of Heaven Church used for first time |
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Fall, 1957 | Mary Queen of Heaven School opens its doors |
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May 25, 1958 | Bishop McNamara dedicates new church building |
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June, 1964 | Reverend Stanley Orlickiewicz appointed as second pastor |
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June, 1965 | Remodeling of Sanctuary after Vatican II |
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June, 1970 | Reverend Paul Benson becomes the third pastor |
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June 24, 1977 | Reverend Paul Benson dies |
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September, 1977 | Reverend Thomas Fleming becomes the fourth pastor |
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January 1, 1985 | Reverend Thomas O'Keefe now Rector of the cathedral dies |
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June, 1989 | Reverend Victor Rudden becomes the fifth pastor |
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April 22, 1992 | Stained glass windows project begins |
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April, 1995 | Remodeling of the Sanctuary of church |
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March 6, 1996 | Reverend Victor Rudden dies |
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June, 1996 | Reverend John Barrett becomes the sixth pastor |
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March 16, 2003 | Bishop Joseph Imesch dedicates the new Parish Center |
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March 28, 2004 | Mary M. Foley appointed as Pastoral Life Coordinator, the first in the Diocese of Joliet |
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April 2, 2006 | 50th Anniversary of Mary Queen of Heaven Parish |
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June, 2008 | Father Anthony Taschetta becomes the seventh pastor |
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