The Bishop had two priorities: Catholic Education and promoting vocations to the priesthood and religious life.  He was known to be a man of prayer, fidelity to the Church, zeal for souls, and a simple man with tremendous joy.  He founded our religious family in 1976.  He also invited many other religious communities into the diocese.    In his retirement in 1991, he  conducted classes for young women in the spiritual life.  During the summer of 1995, his sudden illness was diagnosed as cancer.  A month and a week later the Bishop left this world peacefully on August 27, 1995.

Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin was born in St. Louis, Missouri on March 2, 1916.  He was the youngest of six children, two girls and four boys.
He attended Kenrick Seminary and was ordained on December 20, 1941.  In 1948 he was named the assistant director of the Mission Office and became the director in 1956.  He was also appointed as secretary to Joseph Cardinal Ritter.
He was ordained a Bishop in 1957 in which he chose the motto, Ut Christus Regnet - That Christ May Reign.  In 1967 he was apponted the Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska.