Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 1026 East Central Avenue in Wiggins, MS 39577-9607. It is one of 35 churches in Wiggins.
1026 East Central Avenue, Wiggins, MS, 39577-9607Phone: (601) 528-1393
Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 157 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Mississippi — 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 Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. 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 two thousand 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: 43.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.8%
- Food Insecurity: 23.9%
- Diabetes: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 8.4% (1.7–15.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 17.8% (8.5–27.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Wiggins city is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 1,146 residents.
Churches near Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church
- New Welcome Hill Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Wiggins Presbyterian Church — 1 mi away
- Vardaman Street Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Venture Church — 1.2 mi away
- Iglesia Palabra Viva - WARC Spanish Ministries — 1.9 mi away
- Word Alive Revival Center — 1.9 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 2 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Ann Catholic Church — 22.6 mi away in Lizana, MS
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church — 23 mi away in Lumberton, MS
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