Dormition of the Virgin Mary Byzantine Catholic Church
Dormition of the Virgin Mary Byzantine Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Akron, OH 44314. It is one of 431 churches in Akron, and one of 13 Catholic congregations in the city.
Akron, OH, 44314Dormition of the Virgin Mary Byzantine Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 926 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Ohio — 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 Dormition of the Virgin Mary Byzantine Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Depression: 28.8%
- Food Insecurity: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 8.0% (1.8–14.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.4% (9.4–23.5%)
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.5%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Akron city is served by 251 churches — about one congregation for every 762 residents.
Churches near Dormition of the Virgin Mary Byzantine Catholic Church
- First Baptist Church of Kenmore — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Gospel Temple — 0.1 mi away
- House of Joy Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Restoration Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Redeemed Christian Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- RCCG Jesus House Akron — 0.2 mi away
- Urban Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Progressive Church of God in True Holiness — 0.3 mi away
- Korean Presbyterian Church of Akron — 0.3 mi away
- Unity Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
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