Saints Agatha and James Catholic Church
Saints Agatha and James Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 111 South 38th Street in Philadelphia, PA 19104. It is one of 1,458 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 57 Catholic congregations in the city.
Helping the University City community to encounter Christ, grow in the Christian life, and be sent forth to serve as missionary disciples from one heart to another.
St. Agatha-St. James Parish & Newman Center is a Catholic community that works with the University City community, helping them to encounter Christ, grow in the Christian life, and be sent forth to serve as missionary disciples from one heart to another.
111 South 38th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 12:05pm
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 5:30pm
Phone: (267) 787-5000 · Website: https://www.saintsaj.org/
Shares a ministry location with The Newman Catholic Center.
Saints Agatha and James Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,111 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Pennsylvania — 18,933 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 Saints Agatha and James Catholic Church
- Homeless Outreach
- Liturgical Volunteers
- Music Ministry
- Adult Ministry
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The community around Saints Agatha and James Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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.
- Child Poverty: 59.6%
- Poverty Rate: 50.5%
- Depression: 27.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near Saints Agatha and James Catholic Church
- The Newman Catholic Center — 0 mi away
- Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral — 0.1 mi away
- Tabernacle United Church — 0.1 mi away
- Whosoever Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia — 0.1 mi away
- University Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Episcopal District — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- West Philly Assembly of Christ — 0.4 mi away
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- Saint Francis de Sales Church — 1 mi away
- St. Patrick Church — 1.3 mi away
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- Chapel of Divine Love — 1.4 mi away
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