St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church
St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 519 Liscum Drive in Dayton, OH 45428. It is one of 562 churches in Dayton, and one of 14 Catholic congregations in the city.
I am privileged and humbled to serve St. Benedict Catholic School as Pastoral Leader. I feel my role is to serve the community and provide a spiritual environment to educate our students to achieve moral and academic excellence and to develop critical thinking skills.
519 Liscum Drive, Dayton, OH, 45428St. Benedict the Moor 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 St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church
Within about a mile of 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 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.9%
- Food Insecurity: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Diabetes: 21.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
- Unemployment: 15.7% (7.5–24.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 27.7% (17.9–37.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.4%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Dayton city is served by 260 churches — about one congregation for every 588 residents.
Churches near St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church
- Freedom Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- St James AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethsaida Missionary Baptist — 0.4 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- Good Samaritan Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Union Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mt Paran Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Covenant Apostolic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Kingdom Hall Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Catholic Chapel — 0.8 mi away
- Resurrection Catholic Church — 2.2 mi away
- Saint Agnes Catholic Church — 3.3 mi away
- Saint James Catholic Church — 3.4 mi away
- Assumption Catholic Church — 3.5 mi away