Welcome to Immaculate Conception Parish, located at 809 Main Street in the beautiful, scenic New England town of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Lancaster has a rich history in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and we are proud to be part of its heritage.

Following the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony by Puritans in the early seventeenth century, the English migrated west and settled in the land known today as Lancaster.  The town of Lancaster was incorporated on May 18, 1653, making it the oldest town in Worcester County.

The population continued to increase in this rural community over the next two centuries and became home to such prominent historical figures as Luther Burbank, Mary Rowlandson, the Thayer family, and several officers in the American Revolutionary War. Numerous prestigious homes and mansions emerged throughout town. It comes as no surprise with the town's deep Christian roots that residents witnessed the construction of several places of worship in the nineteenth century, including the First Church of Christ (Unitarian, 1816) and the Evangelical Congregational Church (1841) in the center of town, and the Village Church (Seventh Day Adventist, 1856) in South Lancaster. In 1873, a Roman Catholic church was constructed in the center of town as a mission to St. John's Church from the neighboring town of Clinton. The church was consecrated in 1915 as the Immaculate Conception Church, with Fr. John F. Boyle named as the parish's first priest.

In 1941, the original building was destroyed by fire, and the church was soon rebuilt in a more modern, Colonial style, but without a steeple. In 1994, a 32-foot-high steeple was removed from the Christmas Tree Shoppes in the Olde Shrewsbury Village and donated to Immaculate Conception Parish.  It was mounted seamlessly on the church, as if it were designed specifically for it, and it has stood there proudly ever since.

Today Immaculate Conception Parish continues to serve and be home to Roman Catholics living in and around Lancaster.