Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish
Roman Catholic Church
4795 Ilchester Road
Ellicott City, MD 21043
Rectory Phone: 410-747-4334 / Rectory Fax: 410-747-4399 / School Phone: 410-744-4251
School Fax: 410-788-5210
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Fr. Joseph Firle celebrated the first Mass on August 28, 1866 in a small room on the third floor of the stone house. Then the Redemptorists set to work building the seminary, which was completed in 1868 and called the "upper house." The Ellicott home was known as the "lower house." They named their new college Mount Clement but later changed it to St. Mary's College.