Address:
401 N. Monticello St.
Winamac, IN 46996
Phone: 574-946-4906
Open Church Hours for Prayer, Meditation, and Reflection
Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saint Peter Parish is a welcoming Christian Catholic Community inviting everyone to join together in Christian growth and development in a spirit of serving God by serving others, by evangelicalism, and by fellowship. The Bible, Tradition, and Christian Theology are the guiding principles used to reach eternal life.
Bishop Noll dedicated the present St. Peter Church and its new convent, school, and remodeled rectory on October 12. 1930.
From 1850 to 1867, missions from Logansport visited Winamac until Father Henry Koenig came in 1867 as first resident pastor. By 1873, Bishop Joseph Dwenger assigned St. Peter to the care of Precious Blood Missionaries. At first the missionaries administered the parish with its community of priests, Brothers and Sisters. A frame convent and St. Peter Academy were erected. Then Father Christian Nigsch had Winamac’s second St. Peter built in 1883.
In 1883, the parish purchased the Missionaries' properties and replaced the Academy with a parochial school. It undertook major rebuilding projects so that by 1927 a new convent replaced one destroyed be fire and the church's cathedral stained-glass windows and some other buildings were repaired for the 1930 dedication.
From 200 households in 1907 St. Peter's grew to 260 by 1951. An electronic organ was acquired for the church during its 1970s renovation. When the church was redecorated in 1997-1998, the canvas portrait of Jesus coming on the clouds (1988) was replaced with a 12-foot Risen Christ cross.