Mar Thoma Sleeha Cathedral
Mar Thoma Sleeha Cathedral is a Catholic church at 5000 Saint Charles Road in Bellwood, IL 60104. It is one of 18 churches in Bellwood, and one of 2 Catholic congregations in the city.
5000 Saint Charles Road, Bellwood, IL, 60104Shares a ministry location with Chicago Tamil Catholics and St Thomas Syro-Malabar.
Mar Thoma Sleeha Cathedral is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,056 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Illinois — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Mar Thoma Sleeha Cathedral
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 26.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.5%
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.8%
- Diabetes: 13.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (3.0–9.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Bellwood village is served by 9 churches — about one congregation for every 2,067 residents.
Churches near Mar Thoma Sleeha Cathedral
- St Thomas Syro-Malabar — 0 mi away
- Chicago Tamil Catholics — 0 mi away in Schaumburg, IL
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away in Berkeley, IL
- Life Christian Center Bellwood — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away in Hillside, IL
- Saint John the Baptist Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church — 0.6 mi away
- Holy Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away in Berkeley, IL
- Pentecostal Deliverance Temple — 0.7 mi away
- King of Glory Christian Center — 0.7 mi away
- Logos Evangelistic Church — 0.7 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Queen Of All Nations Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away in Hillside, IL
- Saint Simeon's Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint John Vianney Church — 1.5 mi away in Northlake, IL
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church — 1.8 mi away in Melrose Park, IL
- Sacred Heart Church — 2.2 mi away in Melrose Park, IL