Saint Peter & Paul Catholic Church
Saint Peter & Paul Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 1440 Quarry Ave NW in Grand Rapids, MI 49504. It is one of 420 churches in Grand Rapids, and one of 20 Catholic congregations in the city.
Today we prosper as a beacon of faith, hope, and charity in a missionary atmosphere.
SS. Peter & Paul parish was established in 1904 by Bishop Henry Richter to serve Grand Rapids’ rapidly growing Lithuanian population, who were finding work in the many furniture factories on the city’s near West Side.
Serving since 1904
1440 Quarry Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI, 49504Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
Phone: (616) 454-6000 · Website: http://www.ssppgr.com/
Saint Peter & Paul Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 748 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Michigan — 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 Saint Peter & Paul 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 a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,100 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.
- Food Insecurity: 27.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.0% (11.6–34.5%)
- Unemployment: 15.2% (1.0–29.8%)
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Depression: 30.3%
- Poverty Rate: 26.4% (13.8–39.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Grand Rapids city is served by 313 churches — about one congregation for every 628 residents.
Churches near Saint Peter & Paul Catholic Church
- The church — 0 mi away
- St Peter & Paul Church — 0.1 mi away
- 1255 Broadway nw 49504 Brighter Life PENTECOSTAL POWER CHURCH — 0.2 mi away
- Eagle's Nest Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Reformed Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel II — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life on the Rock Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Ignite Fellowship Church — 0.7 mi away
- Seventh Reformed Church — 0.7 mi away
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- Saint Mary’s Catholic Church – Grand Rapids — 1.2 mi away