Company Profile
Glenmary Home Missioners
Company Overview
Glenmary is a society of Roman Catholic priests & brothers headquartered in Fairfield, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. For over 80 years, Glenmary has sent missionaries to the poor and neglected counties of the south - mainly the Appalachian area. Currently, we have missions in North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee serving counties the poorest of the poor counites.
Company History
Glenmary was founded in 1939 by Father William Howard Bishop, a priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. By most standards, Father Bishop was an ordinary man. For more than 20 years, he labored in a small Catholic parish in rural Maryland.
Yet this ordinary man was given an extraordinary gift: the ability to see. He saw the thousands of poor, neglected and forgotten people who inhabited rural America. He saw what the Church had failed to see-that there were vast areas in the United States that were starving for the Bread of Life.
Armed with this gift of sight, Father Bishop worked relentlessly. He built a school. He published and edited several newsletters in order to bring rural America’s plight to the awareness of “city dwellers.” He organized a cooperative. He was a founding member and later president of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. He started a 4-H Club for the children of his parish. His efforts to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to rural America ultimately culminated in 1939 when he founded the Glenmary Home Missioners.
Benefits
An opportunity to serve.