Father David Reinhart, President of Cardinal Stritch High School, has been named the president of the school system. “We, in essence, have a school system that’s owned equally by all the parishes of our deanery,” Fr. Reinhart says.

Run by a governance board of pastors, pastoral leaders, and representatives from each parish and Cardinal Stritch High School, the preschool through 12th grade school system promises to provide “a world-class Catholic education” in order to help students “achieve at their highest academic levels while providing strong extracurricular programs.” It also aims to promote stewardship as a prominent aspect of school culture.

“Ultimately, our recommendation to the pastors was that nothing can be done unless we have a governing body of decision makers on the behalf of Catholic education,” says Father Reinhart. Joe Herman, a Cardinal Stritch High School board member who co-chaired the steering committee for the Kateri Education Project with Fr. Reinhart, reinforced this belief, saying that uniting the schools would allow for “a better consensus on where we’re going with Catholic education.”

After a series of town hall meetings in the parishes, deanery leaders accepted the recommendation

Currently, each of the schools plans to retain their names and continue to operate on their existing campuses.

For more information, contact the Office of Communications for the Diocese at 41-244-6711 or Father David Reinhart at 419-693-0465.

Catholic Chronicle Reporter Laurie Steven contributed to this release.

The Diocese of Toledo, established April 15, 1910 encompasses 8222 square miles in a mixture of urban and rural areas that spans 19 counties across Northwest Ohio, serving 306,000 Catholics. The diocese includes Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Richland, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, Wood and Wyandot counties.

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