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Catholic parish of the northeast side · established 12 April 1929 · 2130 Pemberton Drive · active, November 2026
Founding: The parish was surveyed for as early as 1924, when the diocese tested whether the city's northeast district could sustain a parish of its own. On 7 May 1926 the diocese bought five acres from Henry F. F. Kruse and the Randall estate, part of the old Randall farm — the square still bounded by State Boulevard, Randallia Drive, Forest Avenue, and Pemberton Drive. Bishop Noll placed the building program in the hands of Father Thomas M. Conroy, rector of the cathedral, and it was on Conroy's recommendation that the new parish was dedicated to St. Jude, the Forgotten Apostle. The parish was formally established on 12 April 1929 with the appointment of its first pastor, Father John A. Dapp.
Building line: First came the school, with a chapel: designed by architect Guy Mahurin, built by the Sheets Construction Company for about $125,000, and dedicated by Bishop Noll on 3 March 1929. The Sisters of Providence opened the school the next day to 105 children in four grades. By its silver jubilee in 1954 the parish was pastored by Monsignor Charles F. Girardot, who had come to it in 1946 after seventeen years at St. Joseph's.
Present state: Active, at 2130 Pemberton Drive, on ground filed in St. Joseph Township inside the present city limits.
Sources:
- St. Jude Parish, Twenty-fifth Anniversary, 1929–1954 (parish history, read first-hand at the Internet Archive).
- Today's Catholic, "In My Diocese: St. Jude Parish," by Deb Wagner, 16 May 2017, as condensed in the genealogical society's St. Joseph Township churches page.
- Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana, St. Joseph Township churches page (2130 Pemberton Dr.).