GLENMARY SISTERS

The Glenmary Sisters are missioned in western Kentucky, eastern Kentucky, and the Missouri Bootheel. We are supported by our central office in Owensboro, Kentucky by a small dedicated staff and part-time consultants... The Glenmary Sisters are a community of Catholic Sisters who live and minister in the midst of the people we serve. Since 1941, the Glenmary Sisters have established missions in the impoverished and rural areas of Appalachia and southern regions of the United States of America... The Glenmary Sisters were founded in 1941 by Father William Howard Bishop. He was a simple parish priest who served in rural Maryland for over twenty years. During that time, he saw thousands of forgotten people, the poor and neglected inhabiting the most rural areas of the United States- an overlooked population who were starving, not just in body, but for the ‘Bread of Life.'

Primary location: Owensboro United States