It was a mission of St. Stephen's that was run by two priests, Father McMahon and Father Cullen who attended to the spiritual needs of the Catholics in the area because there was no Catholic Church in the East Fall's before 1855.
St. John Neumann who was the Bishop of Philadelphia established that a Catholic Church should be built in East Fall's. St. Bridget's was then built and Father McMahon & Father Cullen were the parish's first two priests. Father Cullen was the first pastor while Father McMahon remained involved at the mission.
Within the first year, 46 baptisms occurred.
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