BURLINGTON (VT)
Burlington Free Press
October 11, 2018
By Dan D’Ambrosio
Long since drained of parishioners, Burlington’s Immaculate Conception Church on Pine Street will be sold, with the proceeds going to nearby St. Joseph’s Parish, a church official said Thursday.
St. Joseph’s Parish is deciding now on a commercial real estate broker to market the property, but has not yet settled on a selling price. The City of Burlington values the property at $4.47 million.
Monsignor John McDermott said Immaculate Conception has fewer than 100 parishioners, and that all masses were transferred to St. Joseph’s, just two blocks away on Allen Street. The sale of Immaculate Conception has been a topic of “conversation on a regular basis” within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington since the early 2000s, according to McDermott.990s.
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