CHARLOTTETOWN (Holy Redeemer) In 1929 the northwest section of the cathedral parish was canonically erected as the new parish of Holy Redeemer and placed under the direction of the Redemptorist Fathers whose formal title is "Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer". Beginning with 250 families, the first pastor was Father Joseph McGreel , CSsR, who moved into a newly-purchased rectory at . At Midnight Mass, 1929 the new church was formally opened by Monsignor MacLean , V.G. This was a basement church, located on where St. Jean's School stands today. In 1951 a new Holy Redeemer community centre opened on . A number of Redemptorist priests always lived at Holy Redeemer, forming a religious community there. Frequent parish missions were well attended as were the weekly Mother of Perpetual Help devotions. The Island's first Credit Union, the Liguorian, was established there in 1936. These, along with a wide range of cultural activities, made Holy Redeemer from its beginning until now an active parish community. Overcrowding at the first church led to the building of the present church-rectory complex on Road and which was blessed by Bishop MacEachern in 1964. Due to a redistribution of their priests, the Redemptorists left Holy Redeemer in 1975 after nearly a half century of faithful ministry in Charlottetown . Over that period more than eighty of their members had served at Holy Redeemer Parish . Diocesan clerw have ministered at Holv Redeemer for the past quarter century and during the late 1970s the parish hall opened next door to the church. The parish today numbers 1500 families, making it one of the largest in the diocese. The present Chief Justice of P.E.I. , Gerard Mitchell , is a parishioner here. Another long-time parishioner was St. Clair Trainor , Chief Justice of P.E.I , from 1970 to 1976. 50 Our Parishes