5:00 p.m. Saturday
9:00 a.m & 11:15 a.m. Sunday
9:00 a.m. Tuesday to Friday
The Good Shepherd Parish serves the Ottawa communities of Blackburn Hamlet, Chapel Hill North and Chapel Hill South. Construction of the present church was completed in 1998. The Good Shepherd Parish was originally part of the parish of St. Ignatius. In March 1970 Mass began to be held in the Glen Ogilvie Public School. Over the next few years the foundations of a parish community were laid. By January 1974 the people wished to have an identity of their own, even if parish status was not considered feasible. Archbishop Plourde agreed, granting the community the right to its own identity while remaining part of St. Ignatius. The people themselves voted on a name, choosing that of the Good Shepherd. On August 1, 1976 the Community became independent of St. Ignatius at the request of the congregation. Father Stephen Somerville was appointed Administrator, becoming the first priest to reside in the community. Mass and other church related activities were held in the gymnasium of the Good Shepherd School, as financial considerations precluded the building of a new church. On June 27, 1991, Archbishop Marcel Gervais decreed the raising of Good Shepherd to the status of a parish, effective as of July 28. Father Thomas Bluger, who had been appointed Administrator in 1989, became the first parish priest. In order to make the new parish viable, its boundaries were extended into the fast growing suburb of Orleans, taking over some of the territory belonging to Divine Infant Parish. Later, mass began to be said in the Saint Kateri Catholic School (then Blessed) as well. At the time of its elevation to parish status, Good Shepherd numbered some 1,400 souls.