Posted on 08/29/2006 9:52:00 AM PDT by NYer
Anticipating dramatic growth, the Catholic Diocese of Orlando plans to add up to 15 parishes and build five schools in the next decade and a half.
"We should plan for it rather than wait for it to happen and then play catch-up," Bishop Thomas Wenski said Monday of growth in the nine-county diocese.
The plan is a key recommendation of a report assembled during an 18-month synod that ended during the weekend and focused on growth. The effort involved about 1,000 people from around the diocese, with 20 commissions making 400 recommendations.
No locations have been designated for the new parishes or schools.
Wenski said he expected that they would parallel growth in Central Florida, pointing to Lake, Polk and Osceola counties, as well as west Orange County and the Four Corners area.
The diocese has 82 parishes and 10 missions, along with 37 primary and secondary schools. The diocese covers Brevard, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, Sumter and Volusia counties.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Now we know where all those catholics from the Northeast have migrated.
I was thinking, "I know of some parsihes for sale, but the shipping costs could be a real bummer."
**Anticipating dramatic growth, the Catholic Diocese of Orlando plans to add up to 15 parishes and build five schools in the next decade and a half.**
Exciting news.
How would you like to run away from your New York parish, and when you got to Florida, find it was already there?
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