Location

Website: www.holyspiritcentralmo.org
Phone: (573) 682-2815
Email:   office@holyspiritcentralmo.org
Address: 404 S Rollins St, Centralia MO 65240

County: Boone
Deanery: Central

Staff

Pastor: Rev. Michael A. Coleman
Deacon: Jon M. Bequette

About Holy Spirit

The parish of Holy Ghost, now Holy Spirit, was founded by Fr. John J. Hogan, who was to become the first bishop of St. Joseph and later of Kansas City.

By 1869, three years after the parish's establishment, a Catholic church was built at Sturgeon, which then closed. A wood-frame church was erected through the generosity of a donor and opened in Centralia in 1904. Parishioners worshiped at Centralia or Moberly until 1949.

In 1987, a multipurpose building was added, and in 1996 parishioners built a new altar and pulpit, and outdoors, a grotto to Our Lady that rests on stones from Sturgeon.

Parish History was taken from Proclaiming the Good News in the Heart of Missouri written by Loretta Pastva, SND.