St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 1439 Market St in Harrisburg, PA 17103-2331. It is one of 222 churches in Harrisburg, and one of 5 Catholic congregations in the city.
St. Francis of Assisi Parish has grown tremendously. In the 1940s, St. Francis had so many parishioners that it became the mother church to two new parishes, St. Catherine Labouré and St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.
Serving since 1901 · Services in Spanish · Wheelchair accessible
1439 Market St, Harrisburg, PA, 17103-2331Service times
- Thursday 8am–10am
Phone: +17172321003 · Website: https://stfrancisharrisburg.org/
St Francis of Assisi 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 St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
- Soup Kitchen
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Latest from St Francis of Assisi, PA's YouTube channel: Santa Misa 2:00 p.m. • XVIII Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario • 2 de agosto de 2026 (all videos).
The community around St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,500 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 12.9% (4.0–21.9%)
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Child Poverty: 32.6% (13.1–52.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
- Poverty Rate: 27.8% (17.2–38.4%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.1% (6.5–27.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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