St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church & Parish
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church & Parish is a Catholic church at 519 South Latta Street in El Paso, TX 79905. It is one of 499 churches in El Paso, and one of 20 Catholic congregations in the city.
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church stands as a beacon of faith in South Central El Paso. We are located on the border of the U.S. and Mexico and serve the El Paso/Juarez community. We are a place of prayer, peace and joy to all who join us. Our community is richly diverse, with people of different ages and cultures coming together to worship and serve together. We welcome all individuals seeking God’s love and our doors are open to every soul seeking to welcome Jesus into their heart.
Serving since 1930 · Services in Spanish
519 South Latta Street, El Paso, TX, 79905Service times
- Sunday 9am
Phone: (210) 882-0891 · Website: https://www.stfrancisxaviercatholicchurch.com/
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church & Parish is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,262 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Texas — 19,012 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. Francis Xavier Catholic Church & Parish
- Immigrant and Refugee Project
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The community around St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church & Parish
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. About 3 in 4 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half 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.
- Child Poverty: 79.5%
- Poverty Rate: 54.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 52.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 48.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 32.1% (22.6–41.5%)
- Diabetes: 30.1%
- Obesity: 43.3%
- Unemployment: 11.1% (5.1–17.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
El Paso city is served by 158 churches — about one congregation for every 4,079 residents.
Churches near St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church & Parish
- Iglesia del Nazareno Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Congregacion De La Trinidad — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Christian Center — 0.6 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sendero Church — 0.7 mi away
- Guardian Angel Church — 0.7 mi away
- Phillips Chapel CME Church — 0.8 mi away
- Visitors Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
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