Santa Barbara Pastoral Region

The Santa Barbara Pastoral Region is a division of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in the Roman Catholic Church. It covers Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in California, an area with a population in excess of 1.2 million. ^{[1] [2]}

As of 2024, the pastoral region has 37 parishes, seven high schools, 18 elementary schools and four Spanish missions. It was created in 1986 as part of a plan by Los Angeles Archbishop Roger Mahony to make church leaders more accessible by dividing the archdiocese into five pastoral regions. ^{[3] [2]} The pastoral region includes chapels at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu Naval Air Station and Vandenberg Space Force Base. ^[2] The region is divided into four deaneries.

The Santa Barbara Pastoral region has been governed by four auxiliary bishops since its foundation: ^[1]

• Auxiliary Bishop Patrick Ziemann (1986 to 1992) ^{[4] [5]}
• Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Curry, (1994 to 2013). ^[6] He resigned in 2013 amid allegations that he concealed sexual crimes committed by other priests. ^[7]
• Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron (2015 to 2022) ^{[8] [2]}
• Auxiliary Slawomir Szkredka (September 2023 to present) ^[9]

Parishes

Deanery I (Lompoc, Solvang, Santa Maria and Guadalupe)

Parish name	Image	Address	Community
Immaculate Conception		4793 Cebrian Ave.	New Cuyama
La Purisima Concepcion [10]		213 W. Olive Ave.	Lompoc
Mission Santa Inés [11]		1760 Mission Dr.	Solvang
Our Lady of Guadalupe [12]		1164 Obispo St.	Guadalupe
Queen of Angels [13]		3495 Rucker Rd.	Lompoc
St. John Neumann [14]		966 W. Orchard St.	Santa Maria
St. Louis de Montfort [15]		5075 Harp Rd.	Santa Maria
St. Mary of the Assumption [16]		414 E. Church St.	Santa Maria

Deanery II (Santa Barbara, Goleta, Montecito and Carpinteria)

Parish name	Image	Address	Community
Holy Cross [17]		1740 Cliff Dr.	Santa Barbara
Mission Santa Barbara [18]		2201 Laguna St.	Santa Barbara
Our Lady of Guadalupe [19]		801 Jennings Ave.	Santa Barbara
Our Lady of Mount Carmel [20]		1300 E. Valley Rd.	Montecito
Our Lady of Sorrows [21]		21 E. Sola St.	Santa Barbara
San Roque [22]		325 Argonne Cir.	Santa Barbara
St. Joseph [23]		5048 El Carro Ln.	Carpinteria
St. Mark University Parish (UCSB) [24]		6550 Picasso Rd.	Isla Vista
St. Raphael [25]		5444 Hollister Ave.	Goleta

Deanery III (Oxnard, Ventura, Ojai, Fillmore and Santa Paula)

Parish name	Image	Address	Community
Mary, Star of the Sea [26]		463 W. Pleasant Valley Rd.	Port Hueneme
Mission Basilica San Buenaventura [27]		211 E. Main St.	Ventura
Our Lady of Guadalupe [28]		500 N. Juanita Ave.	Oxnard
Our Lady of Guadalupe [29]		427 N. Oak St.	Santa Paula
Our Lady of the Assumption [30]		3175 Telegraph Rd.	Ventura
Sacred Heart [31]		10800 Henderson Rd.	Saticoy
Santa Clara Chapel (Mission) [32]		1333 E. Ventura Blvd.	El Rio
Santa Clara Church [33]		323 S E Street	Oxnard
St. Anthony [34]		2511 S. C St.	Oxnard
St Francis of Assisi [35]		1048 W. Ventura St.	Fillmore
St. Sebastian [36]		235 N. Ninth St.	Santa Paula
St. Thomas Aquinas [37]		185 St. Thomas Dr.	Ojai

Deanery IV (Simi Valley, Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, Moorpark and Camarillo)

Parish name	Image	Address	Community
Holy Cross [38]		13955 Peach Hill Rd.	Moorpark
St. Jude the Apostle [39]		32032 W. Lindero Canyon Rd.	Westlake Village
St. Julie Billiart [40]		2475 Borchard Rd.	Newbury Park
St. Junipero Serra [41]		5205 Upland Rd.	Camarillo
St. Mary Magdalen [42]		2532 Ventura Blvd.	Camarillo
St. Maximilian Kolbe [43]		5801 Kanan Rd.	Westlake Village
St. Paschal Baylon [44]		155 E. Janss Rd.	Thousand Oaks
St. Peter Claver [45]		5649 E. Pittman St.	Simi Valley
St. Rose of Lima [46]		1305 Royal Ave.	Simi Valley

California Missions

• Mission La Purisima Concepcion, 2295 Purisima Rd., Lompoc
• Mission Santa Ines, 1760 Mission Dr., Solvang
• Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna St., Santa Barbara
• Mission San Buenaventura, 211 E. Main St., Ventura

Other Missions

• Christ the King Mission, 535 Cooper Rd, La Colonia, Oxnard
• Santa Clara Chapel, 1333 E Ventura Blvd, El Rio
• St. Anthony, 270 Helena Street, Los Alamos
• San Ramon Chapel, Forest Rte 10N06, Sisquoc
• San Salvador,4045 E Center Drive, Piru

Universities, colleges and novitiates

• St. John's Seminary, Camarillo
• Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula
• San Lorenzo OFM, Capuchin Novitiate, Santa Ynez
• Santa Barbara Mission OFM Interprovincial Novitiate, Santa Barbara
• Dom Grea House, Canons of the Immaculate Conception (CRIC) Novitiate, Santa Paula ^[47]

High schools

• Bishop Garcia Diego High School, Santa Barbara
• St. Bonaventure High School, Ventura
• St. Joseph High School, Santa Maria
• Santa Clara High School, Oxnard
• Villanova Preparatory School, Ojai

Elementary schools

• Holy Cross STEM School, Ventura ^[48]
• La Purisima Concepcion Catholic School, Lompoc ^[49]
• Notre Dame School, Santa Barbara ^[50]
• Our Lady of the Assumption School, Ventura ^[51]
• Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish School, Oxnard ^[52]
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Montecito ^[53]
• Sacred Heart School, Ventura ^[54]
• St. Anthony School, Oxnard ^[55]
• St. Jude the Apostle School, Westlake Village ^[56]
• St. Mary of the Assumption School, Santa Maria ^[57]
• St. Louis de Montfort School, Santa Maria ^[58]
• St. Mary Magdalen School, Camarillo ^[59]
• St. Paschal Baylon School, Thousand Oaks ^[60]
• St. Raphael School, Goleta ^[61]
• St. Rose of Lima School, Simi Valley ^[62]
• St. Sebastian School, Santa Paula ^[63]
• Santa Clara Elementary School, Oxnard ^[64]

Hospitals

The archdiocese no longer operates any hospitals. The three Catholic hospital in the region are operated by Dignity Health, an independent non-profit organization:

• Marian Regional Medical Center, Santa Maria
• St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital, Camarillo
• St. John's Regional Medical Center, Oxnard

Cemeteries

• Assumption Cemetery & Mausoleum, Simi Valley
• Calvary Cemetery & Mausoleum, Santa Barbara ^[2]
• Santa Clara Cemetery & Mortuary, Oxnard

See also

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles

• Our Lady of the Angels Pastoral Region
• San Fernando Pastoral Region
• San Gabriel Pastoral Region
• San Pedro Pastoral Region

List of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles

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External links

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
• Pastoral Regions - LA Catholics