STAFF - stjohnslandeck.org

FR. JEFF WALKER, Pastor

Phone: 419-695-4050

FR. TONY VERA, Associate Pastor

Phone: 419-695-4050

FR. THOMAS HUNYOR, Associate Pastor

Phone: 419-695-4050

SISTER IMMACOLATA, Parish Manager

Cell Phone: 570-815-1179
sccjoy@yahoo.com

WELCOME our NEW PASTOR, Rev. Jeffery Walker.

Fr. Walker is the pastor at St. Patrick in Spencerville, St John the Evangelist in Delphos, and St. John the Baptist in Landeck parishes.

He is from Custar,Ohio and finished his undergrad at St. Joseph Seminary at Loyola University Chicago. Fr. Walker then spent five years doing his theological studies at the seminaryat the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Italy. He earned a graduate degree in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a post-graddegree, called a Licentiate, in Sacramental Theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm.

He was ordained on June 22, 2013 and has served at St. Rose Parish in Perrysburg, three Sandusky parishes, and Thomas More University Parish in Bowling Green.

Fr. Walker enjoys movies, re-reading something by CS Lewis, and roller coasters.

Parish Office

Monday-Friday, 9:00am to 1:00pm

churchoffice@stjohnthebaptistchurchlandeck.org

419.692.0636

Emergency Phone: 419-513-0415

OUR HISTORY

In 1865, at the end of the U.S. Civil War, Fr. Westerholt of St. John parish in Delphos began celebrating Mass once a month in what would soon become the village of Landeck. Peter Gengler is the one credited with making that request. The building used for Mass belonged to Sebastian Ley.

In 1866, the thirty-seven families in the area petitioned Bishop Rappe, of the Cleveland Diocese, for their own parish. He granted its establishment. They began construction of their church, a wood framed structure, under the direction of a Mr. Beckman. The parishioners provided most of the materials and labor, working when it did not interfere with their needed farm work. By Christmas Day, 1866, it became a suitable enclosure for celebrating Holy Mass.