Whether athletics, computers, forensics or theater, there's an opportunity for every Hannan student. His father, an Irish immigrant known by friends and family as The Boss, came to the U.S. at 18 and found work as a plumber, building his trade into a flourishing business that weathered even the Great Depression. Register your son or daughter for one of our Shadow Days and let them experience a day as a Hannan Hawk. The School Sisters of St. Francis assumed charge of the school in August of 1926 and have remained an integral part of the school to this day. Father OKeefe had a great devotion to Our Blessed Mother. His charism, legacy and memory live on in the hearts and lives of every Archbishop Hannan High School graduate.

Father OKeefe had been stationed in Norfolk, Virginia before arriving in Towson. An Archbishop Hannan education includes much more than academicswhich is why school days at Hannan extend far beyond the classroom. In our Catholic faith, our namesake's example, our St. Bernard history and our understanding of the needs of the modern world. ______________________________________________________, ________________________________________________________________, _____________________________________________________________. Interest in the school grew and by the end of the year 46 pupils were arriving daily. Black students made up 45.4 percent of the Catholic school enrollment in the city of New Orleans during 1987-88. Undaunted by the fact that he had neither the building, the teachers, nor the funds; he announced that the school would be ready in September of the same year. The new archbishop was immediately confronted with the problem of surveying the massive damage inflicted by Betsy. He attended St. Charles College in Catonville, MD, and the Sulpician Seminary in Washington, receiving a masters degree from Catholic University before going in 1936 to the North American College in Rome, where he experienced firsthand the growing tensions in Europe and the preparations for WWII. Father OKeefe rebuilt the Church and named it St. Marys of the Immaculate Conception. When that Church burned down in 1856, the only item to survive the blaze was a statue of the Blessed Mother. After his first jump, he was appointed jump master to a small crew of greenhorn jumpers and he affectionately became known as The Jumping Padre. Once asked if he feared jumping, Archbishop Hannan said relaxing and forgetting his dignity was the formula for safety. The Archbishop promised to build them a high school and in 1987, and he fulfilled that promise with the opening of Archbishop Hannan High School in Meraux, the first and only Catholic high school in St. Bernard Parish. It reopened temporarily on the grounds of St. Joseph Abbey and then moved to a new campus in Goodbee for the 2008-09 academic year. Following his ordination, he was assigned by Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore and served as an assistant for two years at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Baltimore. Ordained in Rome on Dec. 8, 1939, Father Hannan remained in Rome until the following summer, when all American seminarians were ordered by the U.S. secretary of state to leave to ensure their personal safety. You will find all of the information about applying to Archbishop Hannan here, including requirements, admission events, and deadlines. The appointment of Bishop Hannan to become the 11th Archbishop of New Orleans was announced in Washington on Sept. 29, 1965 about three weeks after Hurricane Betsy had devastated New Orleans. The people of St. Bernard Parish had been requesting for years the construction of a Catholic high school. After the war, Father Hannan was assigned as assistant at St. Marys Church, Washington. As far back as 1968 the archbishop encouraged the creation of the first elective Archdiocesan School Board, which in 1972 hired its first lay superintendent of schools. Discharged in 1946 he held the rank of major.

Fundraisers were organized and support was rallied. He was by no means a young man. On November 5, 1922 the new school building was dedicated by Archbishop Curley. The school was forced to relocate to the northshore after the devastating flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Hannan. Archbishop Hannan High School grew steadily, developing pristine academic and athletic facilities. There are many ways you can share news about your job, marriage or family addition -- and even more ways that you can get involved. The Church is almost an exact copy of the Church in Norfolk, Va. of which he had been pastor. He flew to New Orleans on Oct. 12 and was installed the following day in St. Louis Cathedral by Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, apostolic delegate in the United States. The Alumni Association, comprised of all Hannan graduates, is an active part of our school community. The school building was expanded to twice its size in 1929 and enjoyed a third modest expansion which took place in the late 1940s. It's the reason more and more families choose Hannan every year. Realizing the need for a new and larger grade school, he laid his plans accordingly. The result was that some inner-city schools faced with financial disaster were able to continue operation. To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.. Philip Matthew Hannan was born in Washington, D.C. on May 20, 1913, the fifth of eight children (one girl and seven boys) born to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Francis. Catholic education was a point of deep and abiding concern for Archbishop Hannan. Our Campus Ministry team works to serve the faith needs of the Hannan community by helping each person develop a faith-filled, active relationships with others and Jesus Christ. The establishment of the educational trust fund, resulting from the 1986 capital campaign, helped stem the tide of school closures. Father OKeefe died in 1906. Father Sheridan built a new school. In 1948 he was appointed Vice Chancellor of the newly established Archdiocese of Washington and in 1949 completed his doctorate in canon law. The Church basement was transformed into two classrooms and on September 19, 1887, and St. Francis school opened with an enrollment of 15 pupils. In 1945, as the horrors of Nazi prisoner-of-war camps became widely known, Chaplain Hannan liberated a camp of emaciated prisoners at Wbbelin. At that time he was attending sessions of the Second Vatican Council in Rome. Our curriculum is designed to provide an intellectually engaging, comprehensive, and stimulating academic program that prepares students to perform at the highest level in college as well as to lead and serve in the larger community. The archbishop, with the approval of the Priests Council, set up a special fund to give financial assistance to schools in poorer neighborhoods of the inner city so that a Catholic education could be available to as many children as possible. When the Church and School changed their names from St. Francis to Immaculate Conception? Every class of Hannan students experiences a grounded, family-like environment that challenges them spiritually and academically, while encouraging exploration of new ideas and interests.

One constant in our 30-year history has been the dedication and brilliance of our faculty, who strive to inspire a love of learning in students while preparing them for college and life beyond Archbishop Hannan. He quickly realized that a Catholic school was first in the order of importance. We wouldn't be Hannan without you! He was a visionary who labored to build a Church large enough to supply the needs of the fast-growing population of Towson. The archbishop personally visited the areas affected and disbursed funds and other relief goods and materials to those families affected by the storm (a gesture he repeated in 1969 following Hurricane Camille). In 1942 he volunteered as a wartime paratroop chaplain and served with the 505th Parachute Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. After cursory instructions on the ground, he took five practice jumps in order to earn his official status as a paratroop chaplain. The archbishop also directed the board to create a new division with the Department of Education to conduct long-range planning for the system and to constantly review teacher salaries and retirement benefits. The parish was established in 1886 under the patronage of St. Francis and so remained until the erection and dedication of the new Church, which received its new title from Father OKeefe himself. Because of his leadership in helping to keep open as many inner-city schools as possible, more and more children from disadvantaged families were given the opportunity to receive a Catholic education. When deciding on the schools name and vision for the school, the people of St. Bernard Parish agreed that the school should be named in honor of the Archbishop and its vision would reflect his commitment to education, the poor and living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Through an academically rigorous education and a Catholic, Christ-centered formation, Archbishop Hannan High School prepares faith-filled servant leaders that think critically, act with integrity, and respond with compassion to the needs of a complex world.

In December 1955, Pope Pius XII raised him to the rank of Domestic Prelate with the title of Right Reverend Monsignor. His successor, Father Sheridan was keenly interested in education and was deeply concerned about the parish school. Applications for the 2023-2024 school year will open on OCTOBER 1st, 2022. Archbishop Philip M. Hannan died on September 29, 2011. Our step-by-step instructions will walk you through the application process. Though in his sixtieth year he had the zeal, fervor and drive that we usually seek in men of lesser years. When his new Church in Towson was dedicated, he named it and the school Immaculate Conception. While encouraging religious sisters and brothers to continue their work in Catholic schools, the archbishop realized the role that the laity must play in Catholic education. He was successful in procuring two teaching Sisters from the School Sisters of Notre Dame. The story of Immaculate Conception School begins in August of 1887 when Archbishop Gibbons appointed Reverend Matthew OKeefe the pastor of what was then St. Francis (now Immaculate Conception) Church. He holds a licentiate in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome and a doctorate in canon law from the Catholic University of America.