[citation needed] St. Joseph's Church was started by Mill Hill Missionaries who came from the Apostolic Prefecture of Kafiristan and Kashmir, under the Diocese of Lahore.

Father Jim Borst MHM, a well-known missionary and former parish priest, died recently in Srinagar City.

The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1910 noted:[9] At Baramulla, in Kashmir, Father Simon, assisted by a staff of twelve lay teachers, conducts an important school for native Kashmir boys.

[10] In late October 1947, leading into the Kashmir Conflict of 1947, tribal invaders, mostly from colonial India's North West Frontier Province, now part of Pakistan, had stormed Baramulla attacked the church, school, and hospital, killing the Mother Superior and Assistant Mother Sister M. Teresalina Joaquina FMM.

Jim Borst MHM, who has been working in Jammu and Kashmir since 1963, including serving as the principal of St. Joseph's School, was given a Quit India Notice from Kashmir's Foreigners Registration Office in 2004.