Saint Matthews and Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church
Saint Matthews and Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church is a Episcopal church at 8850 Woodward Avenue in Detroit, MI 48202. It is one of 1,585 churches in Detroit, and one of 8 Episcopal congregations in the city.
8850 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI, 48202Saint Matthews and Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 158 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Michigan — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Saint Matthews and Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 46.9%
- Food Insecurity: 39.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.1%
- Poverty Rate: 31.8% (19.9–43.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 20.8%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (1.1–11.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthews and Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church
- Breakers Covenant Church International — 0.1 mi away
- Detroit Church — 0.1 mi away
- Central Woodward Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John's C.M.E. Church — 0.1 mi away
- Historic Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John's Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- People's Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church (Detroit, Michigan) — 0.1 mi away
- Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Prosperity M.B.C. — 0.3 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Grace Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul — 1.9 mi away
- St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church — 2.8 mi away