St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church

St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church is a Orthodox church in Scranton, PA 18503. It is one of 88 churches in Scranton.

Scranton, PA, 18503

St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church is part of the Eastern Orthodox family of churches in The American Church Story. 204 congregations of the Eastern Orthodox family gather across Pennsylvania — 2,098 across the United States on The Church Map.

Orthodoxy has carried the worship of the ancient church essentially unbroken since the first centuries, and it has never let the rest of us settle for a gospel that only forgives — it insists God intends to make his people like himself. Its liturgy, its icons, and its theology of the Trinity are wells the whole church keeps returning to.

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The community around St. Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 the people here live below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. 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.

  • Poverty Rate: 35.2% (25.3–45.0%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
  • Diabetes: 16.3%
  • Child Poverty: 24.4% (8.3–40.5%)
  • Unemployment: 7.1% (2.0–12.3%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Scranton city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 2,306 residents.

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