About Us

The story of St. James Major Parish began on October 3, 1911, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Bernard, where, at that time, Fr. Conrad Rebescher, SSJ, who was pastor at Most Pure Heart of Mary Parish in Mobile, would celebrate the mystery of the Eucharist with black Catholics in the area we now know as St. James Major Catholic Parish.

In 1912, a school was built and staffed at first with lay personnel before the Holy Family Sisters from New Orleans came to take charge. The Holy Ghost Sisters came in 1930, then, in 1943, the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth came and remained till 1954 after which lay staff took over until 1964. The daughters of Charity staffed the school until 2002.

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