“You ask why I started the School Sisters of Christ the King…”

In a letter addressed to an early member of the community dated December 11, 1980, Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin, then Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, expressed his desire to begin a religious community of women totally dedicated to Jesus Christ the King. Touched by the Holy Spirit, the Bishop wrote:

You asked how the School Sisters of Christ the King got started. I will try briefly to give you the human side of the story. I have always been convinced that an apostolic laity was necessary for the conversion of Southern Nebraska – that Christ may reign here (Priests and Sisters alone are not enough), and I was always convinced that an apostolic laity was not a possibility in our day without Catholic schools. I think there is no doubt that we cannot have genuine Catholic schools without the presence and witness of Sisters whose lives are totally dedicated to God.

Bishop Flavin responded to this call and the community of the School Sisters of Christ the King was formed.

September 12, 1976

Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin founds the School Sisters of Christ the King to witness to consecrated life in the Catholic schools and to teach the faith in order to help form an apostolic laity in southern Nebraska. The Sisters begin receiving religious training from the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Immaculata, Pennsylvania.

August 24, 1979

St. Joseph School, the first diocesan school administered by the School Sisters of Christ the King, is started. Three Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters are sent from Immaculata, Pennsylvania to Lincoln, Nebraska to open the school.

June 2, 1992

Bishop Flavin celebrates the first Mass in a newly built Motherhouse chapel. His vision of the Motherhouse is that it is home to all the Sisters who return to it every weekend for prayer, community life, study, recreation, and days of retreat.

November 26, 2017

Bishop James D. Conley, Bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln, establishes the School Sisters of Christ the King as a Religious Institute of Diocesan Right.

The School Sisters of Christ the King are a Roman Catholic community of religious women, founded in 1976 by Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin for the Diocese of Lincoln to witness to a life of consecration and who have Catholic education as their sole apostolate.