Father Robert F. Wicks Memorial Council 9936
The Knights of Columbus (KOC) is the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization.
On Oct. 2, 1881, a group of men met in the basement of St. Mary’s Church on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven. Called together by their 29-year-old parish priest, Father Michael J. McGivney, these men formed a fraternal society that would one day become the world’s largest Catholic family fraternal service organization.
These men were bound together by the ideal of Christopher Columbus, the one whose hand brought Christianity to the Americas. Their efforts came to fruition with the incorporation of the Knights of Columbus on March 29, 1882. They were Knights of Columbus.
The Order has been called “the strong right arm of the Church,” and has been praised by popes, presidents and other world leaders, for support of the Church, programs of evangelization and Catholic education, civic involvement and aid to those in need.
There are 68 Knights in the Father Robert F. Wicks Memorial Council 9936.
Contact Information
Lawrence MacLellan
Grand Knight
Phone: 902-248-2180