Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church
Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 635 North River Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18705. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 Catholic congregations in the city.
635 North River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18705Service times
Monday, January 5th at 5:00pm; Sunday, January 4, 2026 our Sunday Liturgy will be moved to 8:30am; Thursday, December 25, 2025, 9:00am (as listed)
Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian 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 — 18,927 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 Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.0%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (8.0–36.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
- Child Poverty: 24.0% (9.2–38.8%)
- Depression: 23.4%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.4–11.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church
- Parker Hill Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- LCBC — 0.1 mi away in Plains Twp, PA
- St. Andre Bessette — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Matthew Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Luke's United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Cross Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Nueva Jerusalem — 0.5 mi away
- Wesley Chapel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- St. Andre Bessette — 0.2 mi away
- The Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola — 1.5 mi away in Kingston, PA
- Saint Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception — 1.5 mi away
- St Mary's Byzantine Catholic Church — 1.6 mi away in Kingston, PA
- Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church — 1.6 mi away in Plains, PA
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