Address
36455 N. Wilson Road
Ingleside, IL. 60041
Phone
(847) 587-2251
Fax
(847) 973-1765
Archdiocese
Chicago
Archbishop
Francis Cardinal
George,
OMI
Vicar
Bishop George
Rassas
Dean
Reverend Ronald
Lewinski
Pastor
Reverend Timothy
Fairman
Pastor Emeriti
Reverend John Krebs
Reverend Robert Fitzpatrick
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Our
Church History
The history of St. Bede Parish goes back a long way. The mission of St. Mary of
the Lake was established about 1838. Mass was being said in pioneer homes by
Father Palais, a French priest who in 1840 founded St. Patrick's in McHenry and
by a priest from Waukegan who visited the area occasionally.
A small log church was built in the Big Hollow area (around Route 12 and Route
134) and was in service until it was destroyed by a fire in 1879.
In 1871 about twenty-five pioneer families rebuilt St. Mary of the Lake with a
white frame church on property donated by James Gavin. The site is now St.
Bede's cemetery. It was serviced as a mission of St. Patrick's until 1906 and
then as a mission of Antioch. (The wrought iron arch over the cemetery gate
remains from this church).
On May 24, 1928 Cardinal Mundelein wrote the following about Father Coleman the
first pastor of the new St. Bede: "I have divided the parish of St. Peter's,
Antioch, Illinois and included in the limits of the newly-formed parish of St.
Bede's the villages of Ingleside, Long Lake and Fox Lake region and have
appointed you Pastor of that newly-formed parish."
The small church was enlarged to a capacity of about one hundred but during many
summertime Masses it could not accommodate everyone and many had to stand
outside during the Mass.
In the fall of 1940 construction began on the
present St. Bede Church. The cornerstone was laid on September 22, 1940 and the
first Mass was held on May 12, 1941. Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago was
present for the dedication of the church on August 24, 1941. The cost of the new
church was $86,000.
After World War II many families began to
move to the Chain-O-Lakes area and St. Bede membership grew to over two hundred
families. In August, 1953 Cardinal Stritch joined Father Coleman and
parishioners to celebrate St. Bede's twenty-fifth anniversary.
Many of the furnishings of St. Bede came from
parishioner's donations including the stained glass windows, the pipe organ in
the choir loft, the statues of Mary and Joseph, St. Bede and St. Francis, the
Baptismal Font, the Holy Water Fonts, the marble statue of Mary in front of the
Church and the Carillon as a memorial to the founding pastor Father Coleman.
The hand carved wood crucifix and reredos
around the Altar of Repose came from St. Patrick Parish in McHenry, the shrines
for Mary and Joseph were from an old Church in Wilmot and the chandeliers came
from St. Columbkille's in Chicago.
In 1958 St. Bede Elementary School was opened
to house and educate students of families from the Chain-O-Lakes area taught by
Resurrection Sisters. In 2005, as the parish continued to grow, construction of
a new Faith Formation Center began. The old school was torn down to make room
the new center. The center completed in 2008 houses both the parish school and
the religious education program. It is also used for many of the church
ministries, meetings and social events that help the parish maintain a community
that reaches out through many ministries to the parishioners and surrounding
Lake County Communities.
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