Historic Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Historic Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 1501 East Oliver Street in Baltimore, MD 21213. It is one of 1,253 churches in Baltimore, and one of 35 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
1501 East Oliver Street, Baltimore, MD, 21213Phone: (410) 727-3103 · Website: https://www.historicfrancisxavier.org/
Historic Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 351 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Maryland — 18,926 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 Historic Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Social Isolation: 44.0%
- Food Insecurity: 38.5%
- Poverty Rate: 32.9% (18.8–47.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.5%
- Diabetes: 18.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.9%
- Unemployment: 9.6% (2.3–17.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Baltimore city is served by 721 churches — about one congregation for every 810 residents.
Churches near Historic Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Calvary Freewill Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Memorial Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Bethlehem Free Will Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Antioch Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Powerhouse Church of Praise — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle Church of Deliverance — 0.2 mi away
- Hope Center — 0.2 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint James the Less Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Frances Chapel — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Katherine of Sienna Roman Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
- St Agnes Church — 0.9 mi away
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