Ascension of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church
Ascension of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 318 PARK AVENUE in Clairton, PA 15025. It is one of 24 churches in Clairton.
The Ascension of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church was founded in 1907 in the bustling new industrial town of Clairton by Ruthenian immigrants from the Carpathian Mountains of the AustroHungarian Dual Monarchy, specifically, from the Kingdoms of Hungary and Galicia.
Serving since 1907
318 PARK AVENUE, Clairton, PA, 15025Service times
- Sunday 9am · & HOLY DAYS
Phone: (724) 953-4266 · Website: http://ascensionclairton.com/
Ascension of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,113 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Pennsylvania — 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.
Ministries at Ascension of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church
- Religious Education
- Holy Name Society
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The community around Ascension of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 30.6% (14.5–46.6%)
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (3.4–18.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Clairton municipality is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 441 residents.
Churches near Ascension of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church
- Saint Marys Serbian Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Anthony Greek Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Clare of Assisi Church — 0.1 mi away
- Free Holiness Church of Deliverence — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Olive First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Come Ministry — 0.2 mi away
- Gethsemane Church of God and Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Gethesemane Church of God — 0.2 mi away
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