Resurrection Cemetery (Mendota Heights, Minnesota)

Resurrection Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, established in 1940.

[1] Archbishop John Gregory Murray consecrated the cemetery on June 30, 1940.

[2] With land in Minnesota rapidly being purchased, and seeing the need to secure land for Catholic burials, Archbishop Austin Dowling had purchased 350 acres of prairie in Mendota for $400,000 some years prior.

[3]: 544 Resurrection began offering green burials in 2019, in an area dedicated that May by Archbishop Bernard Hebda.

[4][5] A section is dedicated especially to the burial of priests and bishops.