The first Conference of the Society of St Vincent de Paul was formed at St Paul Parish in St Petersburg on April 22, 1931. Again on April 22nd a year later Sacred Heart Conference in Tampa was founded. The area would not see another Conference for 22 years with St Jude Parish in St Petersburg; they would become the Cathedral on June 17, 1968. It would be another 6 years in 1960, when St Patrick in Tampa would form a Conference.

Our Lady of Lourdes in Dunedin; St Cecelia, and Light of Christ in Clearwater; Holy Family, St Petersburg; St Lawrence in Tampa and St John Vianney, St Pete Beach were started in the 60’s. The 1970’s saw only 4 new Conferences with the forming of Corpus Christi, Tampa; Holy Cross in St Petersburg and St Catherine of Sienna and Espiritu Santo in Clearwater.

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