St Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church
St Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 321 Chestnut Ave in Kingston, PA 18704-3313. It is one of 11 churches in Kingston.
Our parish is one of the oldest Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic churches in America, founded in 1887 by Eastern European immigrants who wished to worship according to their Eastern Catholic traditions.
Serving since 1887
321 Chestnut Ave, Kingston, PA, 18704-3313Phone: (570) 287-0282 · Website: http://saintmarypokrova.com/
St Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,107 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Pennsylvania — 18,926 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 Mary's 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 nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 41.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (16.7–34.8%)
- Unemployment: 8.3% (4.3–12.3%)
- Depression: 25.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church
- The Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola — 0.1 mi away
- Church of Christ Uniting — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Full Gospel Slavic Church — 0.4 mi away in Edwardsville, PA
- Saint John the Baptist Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away in Edwardsville, PA
- Dorranceton United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away in Edwardsville, PA
- Bethesda Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away in Edwardsville, PA
- Resurrection of the Lord Polish National Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away in Edwardsville, PA
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Edwardsville, PA
More Catholic churches nearby
- The Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away in Edwardsville, PA
- Resurrection of the Lord Polish National Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away in Edwardsville, PA
- Holy Family Parish — 1.3 mi away in Luzerne, PA
- St. Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Church — 1.6 mi away
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