The precursor to Holy Redeemer Church in New Bremen was a Catholic mission that operated for 20 years. The current parish was founded more than 50 years after the mission closed.

1883
Land for a new settlement purchased by the Bremen Company of Cincinnati, for a Protestant town to be settled by German immigrants.
1837
The village of New Bremen incorporated.
1845
The 249-mile Miami and Erie Canal completed (begun in 1825). New Bremen became a bustling stop and pork packing center.
1849
Forty percent of the town’s residents died of cholera. Though nearby Amsterdam was deserted and never rebuilt, New Bremen recovered.
1872
Most Precious Blood Catholic mission founded. Its brick church, built largely with contributions by Protestants, was visited monthly by a Precious Blood priest until its closing in the 1890s.
1948
Church of the Holy Redeemer parish established.
1969
Current church, designed by Schreiber, Little and Associates of Springfield, built in a sprawling, internationalist style that featured variegated brown brick inside and out; art glass; a “floating ceiling” that reveals the sky above an art glass clerestory; angled walls and ceilings; and tall, narrow stained glass windows.
1976
Parish center built; connector added in 1991.
2018-2021
John and Jean Homan donated dark wood sanctuary furniture, relocating the tabernacle for all Masses in the main church. Renovations also included modern sound and lighting, revealing the original wooden ceiling, and adding a Gothic-inspired reredos behind the altar.
2022
The Northwest Eight Family of parishes (now the Christ Our Light Family) established. The formerly independent parish became part of an eight-parish family operated by the Missionaries of the Precious Blood Fathers.