St. Andre Bessette
St. Andre Bessette is a Roman Catholic church at 668 North Main Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18705. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
668 North Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18705Shares a ministry location with St. Matthew Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church.
St. Andre Bessette 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 St. Andre Bessette
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of the children here are growing up 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: 43.1%
- Child Poverty: 32.4% (15.5–49.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.6%
- Poverty Rate: 24.4% (11.1–37.6%)
- Depression: 23.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (5.6–19.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Wilkes-Barre city is served by 54 churches — about one congregation for every 820 residents.
Churches near St. Andre Bessette
- St. Matthew Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Parker Hill Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- LCBC — 0.2 mi away in Plains Twp, PA
- New Hope Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Luke's United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Cross Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana Nueva Jerusalem — 0.6 mi away
- East End PM Church — 0.7 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church — 1.5 mi away in Plains, PA
- Saint Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception — 1.6 mi away
- Our Lady of Hope — 1.7 mi away
- The Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola — 1.7 mi away in Kingston, PA
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