Mission Land, USA

Who We Are

• A Catholic society of priests and brothers who, along with coworkers and a cooperating community of Glenmary Home Mission Sisters, is dedicated to serving the spiritual and material needs of people throughout Appalachia, the South and Southwest.

• Home missioners whose apostolate is concentrated exclusively within the United States and who are dedicated to bringing the Catholic Church to people who live in the small towns and rural areas of our nation.

• For specific facts and figures

• For more about Glenmary's history and ministry.

Whom We Serve

• The Catholic minority, by establishing a Church presence in areas where less than three percent of the total population is Catholic.

• The unchurched, by testifying to our faith in mission regions where a significant percent of the people have no church affiliation.

• The poor, through our outreach and work for social justice in counties where the poverty level is almost twice the national average.

Where We Serve

Glenmary operates more than 50 missions and ministeries throughout Appalachia, the South and the Southwest as well as research and pastoral service centers focusing on rural ministry.

• For the specific locations of Glenmary mission churches

• For Fast Facts about the mission counties were Glenmary currently serves.

Missioners serve in the following dioceses:

• Birmingham (Alabama)

• Cincinnati (Ohio)

• Covington (Kentucky)

• Jackson (Mississippi)

• Knoxville (Tennessee)
• Lexington (Kentucky)

• Little Rock (Arkansas)

• Nashville (Tennessee)
• Owensboro (Kentucky)

• Raleigh (North Carolina)

• Richmond (Virginia)

• Savannah (Georgia)

• Tulsa (Oklahoma)

• Wheeling-Charleston (West Virginia) 

How We Serve

Glenmary advances its ministry by

• nurturing Catholics

• fostering ecumenism

• evangelizing the unchurched

• engaging in social outreach

• working for justice

• making connections to the universal Church