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Agencies and Institutions

The Catholic Church is more than people and churches. Did a relative attend St Michael's after the death of his parents? Give a child to or adopt a child from St Joseph's? Die in the Maloney Home or Marion Hospital? Attend Kings, Misericordia, Marywood or St Thomas College? A variety social service agencies and institutions were created within the diocese to meet the needs of our ancestors. Many remain in existence today, though their missions may have changed, while others have closed when their original need no longer existed. Additionally there were schools, cemeteries, and other facilities created on a parochial level.

• Diocesan Cemeteries
  • Cathedral Cemetery, Scranton
  • St Catherine's, Moscow
• Colleges & Schools
  • Kilroe Seminary - about Jun 1954 in Bethany, near Honesdale, seminary of the Priests of the Sacred Heart
  • Pius X Seminary,
  • Venard School, Clarks Summit
  • Kings, Wilkes-Barre
  • Marywood, Scranton
  • Marywood Seminary, Scranton
  • Misericordia, Dallas
  • Scranton Prep, Scranton
  • St Thomas/University of Scranton, Scranton
• Hospitals
  • Mary Keller, Scranton
  • Mercy, Scranton
  • Mercy, Wilkes-Barre
• Orphanages & Schools
  • St Joseph's Foundling Home - opened in 1890 under the auspices of the IHM. In operation today as St Joseph's Center. Has complete records, but is governed by Pennsylvania's confidentiality laws concerning adoptions.

    [For example, if your relative wasn't a resident, or died while in their care and hadn't been adopted, they can confirm that. But if your relative was a resident and adopted, all they can tell you is that they can't discuss him/her.]

  • St Nicholas' Orphanage
  • St Patrick's Orphanage - Jackson & Lincoln streets, West Scranton, by St Patrick's Church. Chartered 26 Oct 1875, run by the IHM. 17 children, mainly boys, killed in a fire 27 Feb 1881. Rebuilt afterward. Remained co-ed until St Michael's in Hoban Heights opened. After that had girls from 6-18 and boys from 6-9. Saint Patrick's was closed in 1948 when Our Lady of Fatima opened in Elmhurst.
• Rest Homes
• Miscellaneous
  • Lourdesmont (originally House of the Good Shepherd ) - Run by Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd sisters in North Scranton. Begun in 1889 for "unfortunate females who wish to reform." ¹ Closed in 1926 due to mine subsidence and reopened in Clarks Summit in 1929.