Started as part of Immaculate
Conception Parish. Newman Club founded in 1930. Catholic
Center established in 1963, then it became canonical
parish of John XXIII with Chapel of St. Jude in 1968;
present building 1969. The parish was placed in the
charge of the Paulist Fathers in 1973.
Catholic
presence
on
campus
since
1933,
parish
established
1969.
The
Paulists
assumed
pastoral
care of
the John
XXIII
and
Immaculate
Conception,
Knoxville,
in 1973.