Nativity Catholic Church (Dubuque, Iowa)

For other churches named after the Nativity of Jesus, see Church of the Nativity (disambiguation).

Nativity Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic parish located in Dubuque, Iowa. The parish is located on 1225 Alta Vista St. The parish is part of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, and the current pastor is Rev. Msgr. James Miller.

Nativity was founded in 1922 by future Dubuque Archbishop Henry Rohlman while he was the business manager of Columbia College (today known as Loras College). Members came from several existing parishes, including St. Raphael's Cathedral, Saint Patrick's, and Saint Mary's.

A combination church and school building was constructed. A new church building was constructed in the 1960s in what had been the parking lot, which was capable of seating about 1,100 people. The church space in the old building was converted into a gymnasium.

For the 2005-2006 school year, Nativity parish hosted a middle school for students of the Holy Family Catholic School System. Following the 2005-2006 school year, the parish school will close, and middle school students will instead attend the newly created Mazzuchelli Middle School.

Archdiocese of Dubuque

Ordinaries	Bishops Mathias Loras Clement Smyth Archbishops John Hennessy John Keane James Keane Francis Beckman Henry Rohlman Leo Binz James Byrne Daniel Kucera Jerome Hanus Michael Jackels

Auxiliary Bishops	Edward Aloysius Fitzgerald Loras Thomas Lane George Biskup Loras Joseph Watters Francis John Dunn William Edwin Franklin

Churches	Cathedral St. Raphael's Cathedral, Dubuque Parishes Basilica of St. Francis Xavier, Dyersville St. John XXIII, Cedar Rapids Holy Family, New Melleray Holy Ghost, Dubuque Holy Trinity, Luxemburg Nativity, Dubuque Sacred Heart, Dubuque Sacred Heart, Fillmore St. Boniface, New Vienna St. Donatus, St. Donatus St. Joseph, Elkader St. Joseph, Key West Saint Joseph the Worker, Dubuque St. Ludmila, Cedar Rapids St. Martin, Cascade St. Mary, Guttenberg St. Patrick, Dubuque St. Patrick, Garryowen St. Lawrence, Otter Creek St. Paul, Worthington Saints Peter and Paul, Petersburg Former Parishes Saint Joseph's Prairie Church St. Mary, Cascade St. Mary, Dubuque St. Joseph, Stone City

Education	Higher Education Clarke University Divine Word College Loras College Mount Mercy University St. Pius X Seminary, Dubuque High Schools Beckman High School, Dyersville Columbus High School, Waterloo Don Bosco High School, Gilbertville Marquette High School, Bellevue Newman Catholic High School, Mason City Wahlert High School, Dubuque Xavier High School, Cedar Rapids Primary Schools Mazzuchelli Middle School, Dubuque Holy Family Catholic Schools, Dubuque

Religious Orders	New Melleray Abbey Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Priests	John George Alleman John Patrick Carroll James Vincent Casey Joseph Crétin Justin Albert Driscoll Thomas William Drumm Raymond Philip Etteldorf Daniel Mary Gorman Edward Howard Louis Benedict Kucera Mathias Clement Lenihan Thomas Mathias Lenihan J. A. M. Pelamourgues Joseph Clement Willging

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