St. Henry Catholic Church

Catholic parish of the southeast side · 3029 East Paulding Road · active, November 2026 · founding year not reached

What the record reached shows: St. Henry's is the southeast side's parish, its church at 3029 East Paulding Road and its parish office at 5711 St. Henry's Lane. In the 1990s its school was the campus at which Sacred Heart's and St. Patrick's schools combined with its own into the Benoit Academy. By 2016 the parish had been re-cast as the St. Henry Community Center, a missionary outreach on the southeast side, whose garden and center Bishop Rhoades blessed on the parish's feast day, 10 July 2016, Father Dan Durkin being pastor; its sister-parish partner in that work was the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Its bulletins of 2025 are bilingual, English and Spanish — the parish styles itself San Enrique — with Father Matthew M. Coonan as pastor.

The gap, named: The parish's founding year and founding narrative do not appear in any source this gazetteer could reach — not in the genealogical society's church list, which omits the parish entirely, nor in the diocesan newspaper's accounts of it. The founding stands open, to be supplied from the parish's own records at the Allen County Public Library or the parish office.

Sources:

1. Today's Catholic, "Bishop Rhoades celebrates and blesses St. Henry Community Center," 20 July 2016.
2. St. Henry parish bulletins, 2025 (address, pastor, bilingual ministry).
3. Today's Catholic, Sacred Heart parish history, 20 September 2022 (the Benoit Academy at the St. Henry campus).