St Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic
St Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic is a church at 130 N. St., PA, 18504 in Scranton, PA 18504-2006. It is one of 63 churches in Scranton.
Today we continue to witness to the Gospel of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania: concentrated in the Lackawanna Valley.
130 N. St., PA, 18504, Scranton, PA, 18504-2006Service times
Wednesday 4pm–6pm (October -); Friday 5:30pm (August) (as listed)
Phone: (570) 343-6092 · Website: https://www.melkitescranton.org/
St Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic 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.
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The community around St Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic
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. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Poverty Rate: 25.9% (15.5–36.3%)
- Unemployment: 9.7% (3.7–15.6%)
- Obesity: 38.4%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St Joseph Melkite Greek Catholic
- Jackson St Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Ann's Maronite Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Michael's Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- St Michael's RC Church Traditional Rite — 0.5 mi away
- St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- St John's Byzantine Church — 0.6 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- St Ann's Maronite Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic — 0.3 mi away
- St Michael's Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Michael's RC Church Traditional Rite — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Peter's Cathedral — 0.7 mi away
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