Who We Are

St. John Vianney is a vibrant Catholic community in Brookfield, Wisconsin. With ministries to engage members in prayer and worship, Catholic education formation, and opportunities for stewardship, we grow in faith, love, and community each day. As a member, you’ll find our parish family to be warm and welcoming. We encourage you to join a ministry or small group and get involved in the parish. We’re sure you will find a way to reach out and share your gifts. 

Our school and Christian Formation programs provide youth with opportunities to utilize the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit:  Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord through faith-formation and a variety of service and faith-filled experiences.

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Saint John Vianney Parish is a welcoming Catholic Faith community. 

We are EXPERIENCING Christ in our lives through the Gospel, sacraments, and lifelong faith formation. 

We are LIVING our faith in worship and stewardship. 

And we are SERVING God’s people to reveal the presence of Christ in our community. 

In early summer 1956, Fr. Paul Lipscomb planted a mustard seed in the dirt near the corner of Calhoun and Gebhardt Rd. This mustard seed, symbolic of faith and of Jesus' love, was actually a Sacred Heart Badge and symbolized the beginning of St. John Vianney Parish. Our first Sunday Mass was celebrated at Brookfield High School, with weekday Masses held in the basement of the rectory on a makeshift altar. Within a month, parishioners gathered money to purchase additional land and begin construction on an above-ground church and a school. On Christmas Eve of 1957, a midnight Mass was celebrated in the new church. This church has now become our school's cafeteria, with the church we use today having been built in 1978.

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