Santa Barbara Pastoral Region

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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]

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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]

Parishes

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

Parish nameImageAddressCommunity
Immaculate Conception4793 Cebrian Ave. New Cuyama
La Purisima Concepcion [10] 213 W. Olive Ave. Lompoc
Mission Santa Inés [11] Mission StInes.jpg 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 nameImageAddressCommunity
Holy Cross [17] 1740 Cliff Dr. Santa Barbara
Mission Santa Barbara [18] Mission santabarbara chapel.jpg 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] SantaBarbaraCA OurLadyOfSorrowsChurch2 20170912 (cropped).jpg 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 nameImageAddressCommunity
Mary Star of the Sea [26] 463 W. Pleasant Valley Rd. Oxnard
Mission Basilica San Buenaventura [27] Mission San Buenaventura.jpg 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.Ventura
Santa Clara [32] Santa Clara Catholic Church, Oxnard, California.JPG 323 S. E St. (old chapel at 1333 E. Ventura Blvd.)Oxnard
St. Anthony [33] 2511 S. C St.Oxnard
St Francis of Assisi [34] 1048 W. Ventura St. Fillmore
St. Sebastian [35] 235 N. Ninth St.Santa Paula
St. Thomas Aquinas [36] 185 St. Thomas Dr. Ojai

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

Parish nameImageAddressCommunity
Holy Cross [37] 13955 Peach Hill Rd. Moorpark
St. Jude the Apostle [38] 32032 W. Lindero Canyon Rd. Westlake Village
St. Julie Billiart [39] 2475 Borchard Rd. Newbury Park
St. Junipero Serra [40] Father Juniperro Serra Catholic Church, Camarillo.JPG 5205 Upland Rd. Camarillo
St. Mary Magdalen [41] 2532 Ventura Blvd. Camarillo
St. Maximilian Kolbe [42] 5801 Kanan Rd.Westlake Village
St. Paschal Baylon [43] 155 E. Janss Rd. Thousand Oaks
St. Peter Claver [44] 5649 E. Pittman St. Simi Valley
St. Rose of Lima [45] 1305 Royal Ave.Simi Valley

Spanish missions

Universities, colleges and novitiates

High schools

Elementary schools

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:

Cemeteries

See also

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles

List of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles

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