Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church
Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church is a Greek Catholic church at 104 East Bertsch Street in Lansford, PA 18232. It is one of 7 churches in Lansford.
Saint John the Baptist Church was founded in 1892 by Slavic immigrants who emigrated from the Carpathian Mountain region of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire before the outbreak of WWI.
Serving since 1892
104 East Bertsch Street, Lansford, PA, 18232Service times
- Saturday 4pm
Phone: (570) 645-2640 · Website: http://www.stjohnsbyzantinecatholicchurch.org/
Saint John the Baptist 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 Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church
Within about a mile of this church, about 1 in 5 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 20.8% (13.1–28.4%)
- Child Poverty: 35.6% (17.3–53.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 24.1% (15.4–32.8%)
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Depression: 26.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Lansford borough is served by 6 churches — about one congregation for every 688 residents.
Churches near Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Katharine Drexel Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. John's Slovak Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.6 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- Hope of Christ Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Katharine Drexel Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away in Summit Hill, PA
- S.S. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away in Coaldale, PA
- Saint John Lithuanian Catholic Church — 1.7 mi away in Coaldale, PA
- Saint Mary Greek Catholic Church — 4.2 mi away in Nesquehoning, PA
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