About St. Jude Thaddeus

Mass was celebrated in Mokane, Missouri beginning as early as 1900. Fr. George W. Hoen, pastor of the church at Starkenburg, Missouri would travel by train once a month to offer Mass in a room at the Yoest Hotel.

Fr. Hoen was the first priest assigned to St. Jude Thaddeus Church when it was built in 1909. First established as a mission of St. Peter Church in Fulton in 1910, with the expansion of the church attendees and buildings St. Jude Thaddeus was erected as an independent parish in 1969.