About us

In the early 1950s, the Most Reverend Robert J.Armstrong, Bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento, realized that the once rural parishes of St.Philomene and Our Lady of the Assumption were overflowing with Catholic families.  He reconfigured the area and created a new parish – St.Ignatius.  The growth of Sacramento had stretched the ranks of the diocesan priests.  Bishop Armstrong invited the Jesuit provincial to send priests to staff the new parish, build a school, and eventually build a Jesuit high school.  In 1954, the provincial sent Father Fred Cosgrove, S.J., Prefect