St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church
St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 226 South Washington Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. It is one of 82 churches in Wilkes-Barre, and one of 4 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
Services in Spanish
226 South Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18701Service times
Thursday | 6:00 pm (as listed)
Phone: (570) 823-7736 · Website: http://parishwb.com/
St. Nicholas Roman 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 — 18,926 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 St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church
- Food Pantry
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Latest from St. Nicholas St. Mary Parish- Wilkes Barre's YouTube channel: Second Sunday of Advent - 12/10/23 (all videos).
The community around St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. 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 2,300 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: 40.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
- Poverty Rate: 25.1% (15.9–34.4%)
- Unemployment: 9.2% (4.2–14.2%)
- Depression: 24.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Diabetes: 13.0%
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. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Pentecostal Leon de Juda — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception — 0.2 mi away
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Vida Nueva Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Assembly Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Our Lady of Hope — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Hope — 0.4 mi away
- St. Anthony's Marionite Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. George Marionite Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
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