New Orleans, LA

Our first Sisters went to New Orleans in 1919 at the invitation of Archbishop John Shaw, to open St. Frances de Sales School. Seven years later, in 1926, the Congregation established St. Catherine of Siena in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans. The Sisters opened a Catholic high school in 1962 in Metairie, under the auspices of the archdiocse of New Orleans, and named after Archhbishop Olacide Louis Chapelle.

Incarnate Word Sisters taught at St. Catherine of Siena until 2013 when Srs. Imelda Moriarty and Marceline O'Connell retired.