Welcome to St. Peter Parish
1840 Marshall Drive
Elizabethtown PA 17022
Rev. David L. Danneker, Ph.D, PastorRev. Msgr. Thomas J. Kujovsky
In 1752 the first Mass was celebrated by Jesuit Father
Ferdinand Farmer, a German missionary based in
St. Mary’s in Lancaster at a farm belonging to Henry
Eckenroth, head of the only Catholic household
located in the area. This Mass was the beginning of the
parish that later became St. Peter’s.
On May 30, 1799, the congregation gathered with Father
Louis DeBarth in Elizabethtown to lay the cornerstone of
a new church.
In 1840, St. Peter’s was designated a parish in its own right
with Father Francis Marshall as its first pastor.
On May 10, 1998, ground was broken for the new church.
The new Saint Peter Church at 1840 Marshall Drive,
Elizabethtown, was dedicated on September 5, 1999.
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