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Established 1957 by Bishop Pursley; first Mass in the Twin Branch School gymnasium; school opened 1958, closed 1970; present church dedicated 1970; 4508 Vistula Road
The founding: Queen of Peace is the suburban parish, founded for the city's eastward growth. Bishop Leo A. Pursley established it in 1957, with Father Milford Bell as first pastor; its first Masses were said in the gymnasium of Twin Branch School, and forty families made the first congregation. Its school opened in 1958 with 120 pupils, taught by the Franciscan Sisters of Mishawaka — the motherhouse's sisters, in this section's flagship line — and closed in 1970 when the sisters could no longer staff it. Ground was broken for the permanent church in 1969, and the church, built with a gymnasium, was dedicated in 1970.
The present state: The parish stands active at 4508 Vistula Road with about 900 families, on the diocesan newspaper's profile count of 2017, and its own site current in November 2026: Sunday Masses at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. with a Saturday vigil at 5:00, weekday Masses Tuesday through Friday at 8:15, and a weekday adoration hour, 7:00 to 8:00 a.m., concluding with Benediction and Lauds — a parish-scale echo of the adoration kept three miles west at the motherhouse.
Sources:
- Today's Catholic parish profile, 2017 (the 1957 founding, the Twin Branch gym, the school's opening and closing, the family count).
- Queen of Peace parish site (queenofpeace.cc), current November 2026 — schedules, adoration, the operating school.