St. Mark parish leaders expect business as usual after merger
As the merger of two Catholic churches in southern Butler County nears, the Rev. Charles Bober says the change will challenge Saint Kilian and Holy Sepulcher to “work together as neighbors.”
The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh announced in May that Holy Sepulcher in Middlesex Township and St. Kilian in Cranberry Township will merge their operations to create St. Mark the Evangelist Parish on July 1.
While both churches will continue to exist as before under their prior names, their respective parishes will cease to exist and will merge into one.
"I think people realize that this is not something unique to these two parishes, but something that is occurring in all the other parishes,“ Bober said. ”I think people realize that this is in response to trying to do better ministry, to make better use of clergy personnel, and also to try to challenge us to work together as neighbors.”
