Saint Joseph Catholic Church
Saint Joseph Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 1914 18th Avenue in Meridian, MS 39301. It is one of 221 churches in Meridian, and one of 2 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
1914 18th Avenue, Meridian, MS, 39301Phone: +1 601-693-1321 · Website: https://www.catholicmeridian.org/
Saint Joseph Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 158 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Mississippi — 19,012 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 Joseph Catholic Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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: 51.9%
- Food Insecurity: 46.3%
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.0%
- Poverty Rate: 39.0% (21.1–57.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.3%
- Diabetes: 25.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.0% (3.8–25.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Meridian city is served by 90 churches — about one congregation for every 361 residents.
Churches near Saint Joseph Catholic Church
- Free Gospel Temple JCAC — 0.1 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Haven Chapel United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Allen Chapel AME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Paradise Church of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- East End United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Church of the Nazarene — 0.4 mi away
- New Era Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Temple Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away
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