# List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco

This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. The archdiocese includes the City and County of San Francisco and the Counties of Marin and San Mateo.
The mother church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, completed in 1971. It replaced the previous cathedral, dedicated in 1891 at the NW corner of Van Ness Avenue and O'Farrell Street, which was destroyed by arson in 1962. The archdiocese includes the following historic sites
* Old Saint Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, dating to the mid-1850s, still in active use as a parish church
* Mission San Francisco de Asís, the oldest building in San Francisco
* Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, known as the Italian cathedral of the West

## San Francisco County

All the parishes in San Francisco County are contained in five deaneries.

### Alemany Deanery

The Alemany Deanery consists of the Bayview/Hunter's Point, Excelsior, Visitacion Valley, Crocker Amazon and Ingleside areas in San Francisco.
| Church name | Location | Date est. | Description/notes |
| Church of the Epiphany | 827 Vienna St. | 1911 | Current church completed in 1950 |
| Church of the Visitacion | 655 Sunnydale Ave. | 1907 | Current church dedicated in 1952 |
| Corpus Christi | 62 Santa Rosa Ave. | 1898 | A Salesian parish |
| Our Lady of Lourdes | 410 Hawes St. | 1946 | Wooden chapel with carved beams and stained glass windows depicting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sojourner Truth and others |
| St. Elizabeth | 459 Somerset St. | 1912 | |
| St. Emydius | 286 Ashton Ave. | 1913 | |
| St. Michael Korean | 32 Broad St. | 1898 | |
| St. Paul of the Shipwreck | 1122 Jamestown Ave. | 1913 | Located in Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood |

### Cathedral Deanery

The Cathedral Deanery consists of the Western Addition, Japantown, Castro, Haight-Ashbury, Richmond, and Cow Hollow neighborhoods in San Francisco.
| Church name | Location | Date est. | Description/notes |
| Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption | 1111 Gough St. | | |
| Nativity of Our Lord | 240 Fell St. | 1903 | Began as a parish serving Croatian and Slovenian immigrants |
| Most Holy Redeemer | 100 Diamond St. | 1900 | Church dedicated in 1901; located in the Castro district |
| Our Lady of Fatima | 5920 Geary Blvd. | 1950 | Russian Byzantine parish founded to serve Russian exiles |
| St. Agnes | 1025 Masonic Ave. | 1893 | Addition to church built in 1953 |
| St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf | 1801 Octavia St. | 1984 | Established as the only deaf Catholic parish in the Western United States |
| St. Dominic | 2390 Bush St. | 1873 | Gothic style church completed in 1928; flying buttresses added in early 1990s for seismic stability |
| St. Ignatius | 650 Parker Ave. | 1855 | Current Italian Renaissance and Baroque church dedicated in 1914 |
| St. Monica-St. Thomas the Apostle Parish | St. Monica Church, 470 24th Ave. | 1911 | Current church dedicated in 1918. Merged in 2017 with St. Thomas the Apostle. |
| | St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 3835 Balboa St. | | First church built in 1923, expanded in 1930. Merged in 2017 with St. Monica |
| St. Vincent de Paul | 2320 Green St. | 1911 | Parish in Pacific Heights neighborhood. Church opened in 1913, became known as the "Church of the Exposition" |
| Star of the Sea | 4420 Geary Blvd. | | |

### Downtown Deanery

The Downtown Deanery consists of San Francisco's Financial District, Chinatown, North Beach, Tenderloin District, and SOMA areas.
| Church name | Location | Date est. | Description/notes |
| National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi | 610 Vallejo St. | | Current Norman Gothic church has twin campaniles, was dedicated in 1860 |
| Notre Dame des Victoires | 566 Bush St. | 1856 | Founded to serve French immigrants. The original church was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. The current church was built in 1913; it is a San Francisco Historic landmark |
| Old St. Mary's Cathedral | 660 California St. | 1854 | Gothic Revival church built in 1854. It is a San Francisco landmark |
| St. Boniface | 133 Golden Gate Ave. | 1860 | |
| St. Patrick | 756 Mission St. | 1851 | Church rebuilt after 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. It is San Francisco Historic Landmark #4 |
| Sts. Peter and Paul | 666 Filbert St. | 1884 | Known as the Italian Cathedral of the West, completed in 1924 |

### Mission Deanery

The Mission Deanery consists of the Mission, Bernal Heights, Glen Park, Potrero Hill, and Noe Valley districts in San Francisco.
| Church name | Location | Date est. | Description/notes |
| Mission Dolores Basilica and Mission San Francisco de Asis | 3321 16th St. | 1776 | The mission building is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco; the basilica was added in 1918 |
| St. Anthony of Padua | 3215 Cesar Chavez St. | 1893 | |
| St. Charles Borromeo | 701 S Van Ness Ave. | 1887 | Current Mission style church built in 1917 |
| St. James | 1086 Guerrero St. | 1888 | |
| St. John the Evangelist | 19 St Marys Ave. | 1893 | |
| St. Kevin | 704 Cortland Ave. | 1922 | Church built in 1925 |
| St. Paul | 221 Valley St. | 1876 | Located in Noe Valley neighborhood, completed in 1911 |
| St. Peter | 1200 Florida St. | 1867 | |
| St. Philip the Apostle | 725 Diamond St. | 1910 | Gothic Revival church built in 1925 |
| St. Teresa of Avila | 1490 19th St. | 1880 | Church built in 1892 |

### Sunset Deanery

The Sunset Deanery consists of San Francisco's Sunset District, Forest Hill, Parkside, Westwood Park, and Lakeside neighborhoods.
| Church name | Location | Date est. | Description and notes |
| Holy Name of Jesus | 1555 39th Ave. | 1925 | Located in the Sunset District. Church was dedicated in 1964. It was referred to at the time as being "as modern as tomorrow." |
| St. Anne of the Sunset | 850 Judah St. | 1904 | Romanesque church in Sunset District was completed in 1932. |
| St. Brendan the Navigator | 29 Rockaway Ave. | 1929 | California mission-style structure with a distinctive bell tower |
| St. Cecilia | 2555 17th Ave. | 1917 | Current Spanish colonial church completed in 1956 in Sunset District |
| St. Finn Barr | 415 Edna St. | 1926 | Located in the Sunnyside district |
| St. Gabriel | 2559 40th Ave. | 1941 | Church dedicated in 1942 |
| St. John of God | 1290 5th Ave. | 1967 | |
| St. Stephen | 451 Eucalyptus Dr. | 1950 | Church dedicated in 1964 |
| St. Thomas More | 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. | 1950 | |

## Marin County
### Marin Deanery

The Marin Deanery consists of all the parishes in Marin County.
| Church name | Location | Date est. | Description/Notes |
| Church of the Assumption and St. Helen Parish | Tomales | 1860 | |
| Mission San Rafael Arcángel | 1104 5th Ave, San Rafael | 1822 | Founded in 1817 as a medical asistencia ("sub-mission") of Mission San Francisco de Asís; granted full mission status in 1822. |
| Our Lady of Loretto | 1806 Novato Blvd, Novato | 1892 | Church dedicated in 1963 |
| Our Lady of Mount Carmel | 3 Oakdale Ave, Mill Valley | 1910 | Church dedicated in 1968 |
| Sacred Heart | 10189 State Route #1, Olema | 1937 | Church dedicated in 1967 |
| St. Anselm | 97 Shady Lane and Bolinas, San Anselmo | 1907 | Church built in 1908 |
| St. Anthony of Padua | 1000 Cambridge St, Novato | 1968 | Church dedicated in 1971 |
| St. Cecilia | 450 Cintura Ave, Lagunitas | 1937 | |
| St. Hilary | 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon | 1951 | |
| St. Isabella | One Trinity Way, San Rafael | 1961 | |
| St. Mary Star of the Sea | 180 Harrison Ave, Sausalito | 1881 | Church built in 1959 |
| St. Mary's | Ranch Rd, Nicasio | | Built in 1867, declared a historical monument by the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West in 1967; now a mission church of St. Cecilia's in Lagunitas |
| St. Mary Magdalene | 16 Horseshoe Hill Rd, Bolinas | 1863 | Mission church of Sacred Heart in Olema; dates to 1878 |
| St. Patrick | 114 King St, Larkspur | 1915 | |
| St. Raphael | 1104 Fifth Ave, San Rafael | 1861 | Parish traces its history to formation of the Mission San Rafael Arcángel in 1817. |
| St. Rita | 100 Marinda Dr, Fairfax | 1930 | |
| St. Sebastian | 373 Bon Air Rd, Greenbrae | 1951 | |

## San Mateo County

All the parishes in San Mateo County are contained in four deaneries.

### Central San Mateo Deanery

| Church name | Location | Date est. | Description/notes |
| Immaculate Heart of Mary | 1040 Alameda De Las Pulgas, Belmont | 1947 | |
| Our Lady of Angels | 1721 Hillside Dr, Burlingame | 1926 | Served by Capuchin Franciscans |
| Our Lady of the Pillar | 400 Church St, Half Moon Bay | 1868 | Church dedicated in 1954, largest parish in size in San Mateo County. |
| St. Bartholomew | 300 Alameda De Las Pulgas, San Mateo | 1955 | |
| St. Catherine of Siena | 1310 Bayswater Ave, Burlingame | 1908 | |
| St. Gregory | 2715 Hacienda St, San Mateo | 1941 | Church constructed in 1953. |
| St. Luke | 1111 Beach Park Blvd, Foster City | 1970 | |
| St. Mark | 325 Marine View Ave, Belmont | 1965 | Church built in 1970. |
| St. Matthew | 1 Notre Dame Ave, San Mateo | 1863 | |

### Coastside Deanery

| Church name | Location | Date est. | Description/notes |
| Church of the Good Shepherd | 901 Oceana Blvd, Pacifica | 1951 | |
| Holy Angels | 107 San Pedro Rd, Colma | 1914 | |
| Our Lady of Mercy | 1 Elmwood Dr, Daly City | 1954 | Church dedicated in 1956. |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help | 60 Wellington Ave, Daly City | 1925 | |
| St. Andrew | 1571 Southgate Ave, Daly City | 1968 | Church dedicated in 1975. |
| St. Augustine | 3700 Callan Blvd, South San Francisco | 1970 | Church dedicated in 1975. |
| St. Peter | 700 Oddstad Blvd, Pacifica | 1956 | |

### North San Mateo Deanery

| Church name | Location | Date est. | Description/notes |
| All Souls | 315 Walnut Ave, South San Francisco | 1913 | Church dedicated in 1968. |
| Mater Dolorosa | 307 Willow Ave, South San Francisco | 1961 | |
| St. Bruno | 555 W. San Bruno Ave, San Bruno | 1912 | Church dedicated in 1959. |
| St. Dunstan | 1133 Broadway, Millbrae | 1940 | |
| St. Robert | 1380 Crystal Springs Rd, San Bruno | 1912 | Church constructed in 1958. |
| St. Veronica | 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco | 1951 | |

### South San Mateo Deanery

| Church name | Location | Date est. | Description/notes |
| Church of the Nativity | 210 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park | 1877 | |
| Our Lady of Mount Carmel | 300 Fulton St, Redwood City | 1887 | |
| Our Lady of the Wayside | 930 Portola Rd, Portola Valley | | Mission Revival church built in 1912 |
| St. Anthony of Padua | 3500 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park | 1951 | |
| St. Charles | 880 Tamarack Ave, San Carlos | 1928 | Church dedicated in 1966 |
| St. Denis | 2250 Avy Ave, Menlo Park | 1856 and 1961 | |
| St. Francis of Assisi | 1425 Bay Rd, East Palo Alto | 1951 | |
| St. Matthias | 1685 Cordilleras Rd, Redwood City | 1961 | Church dedicated in 1963. |
| St. Pius | 1100 Woodside Rd, Redwood City | 1951 | Church dedicated in 1968. |
| St. Raymond | 1100 Santa Cruz Ave, Menlo Park | 1950 | Church dedicated in 1959. |