Council Leadership & Contact Information:

Council email address: koc5544@aol.com
Meeting location and time: St. Jude's Parish Center on the 2^nd Wednesday of each month.  Rosary at 6:30 p.m., meeting at 7:00.
Grand Knight: Christopher J. Zaugg, 2216 Chandler St SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404-1631, 319-365-2830, cbzaugg@imonmail.com
Deputy Grand Knight: Jeff Freilinger
Chaplain: Fr. Mark Reasoner
Insurance field agent: Walker Bormann
District Deputy: Russell Yount

About Council 5544:

Charter date: April 5, 1964

If you are a practical (practicing) Catholic man, age 18 or older, we welcome you to join the leading organization of Catholic laymen in the world. Click here for more information on joining the Knights of Columbus.

If you want to get a website/profile operating for your Council or Assembly, click here for an instructional video. For more information and discussion on this issue, click here. [Kudos to Marty Stratton (IowaKofC.org webmaster) for helping to get the 5544 website up and running. In thanksgiving, please take some time to visit Brother Marty's business website.]

Links:

---->>The Witness is the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Dubuque (AoD). All members of the Knights of Columbus in the AoD should subscribe to The Witness to get information directly from our Bishop and to have access to local, State, national, and international Catholic and other news. Click here to subscribe to The Witness.
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--->>Old Cedar Rapids 5544 website.

Council 5544 Mission Statement and Prayer:

The Knights of Columbus was founded by Venerable Servant of God Father Michael McGivney, a New Haven parish priest, in 1882. The organization was formed to provide charitable outreach and care for the financial well being of Catholic families, focusing on the protection of widows and orphans, and on strengthening the faith of its members. It has grown into the world’s largest lay Catholic organization, with more than 1.8 million members throughout North and Central America, the Philippines, the Caribbean and Europe. The enormous force for good of the nearly 15,000 Knights of Columbus councils donated more than $1.5 billion and 682 million hours of service over the last decade to various charitable causes.  Council 5544 follows in this tradition in our local area, and we ask for the prayers of our guardian angels, Saint Benedict, Saint Joseph, the blessed Virgin Mary under the title of our Lady of Guadalupe, Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney (founder of the Knights of Columbus), and all people as we try to help our brothers and sisters in the service of our Lord Jesus the Christ.  May the Holy Spirit come upon our Council and all people such that we may serve our heavenly Father in Truth and Justice.  Amen.

Prayer of An Iowa Knight

This website is dedicated to the Venerable Servant of God Father Michael J. McGivney, to Christopher Columbus(^{1, 2}) and, most importantly, to Saint Mary, most holy Mother of the Church