# St. Mary's Parish

Roman Catholic church in Hamilton, Ontario.

Source: https://hamiltons.church/churches/st-marys-catholic/
Last verified: 2026-10-18

## Mass times
- Sunday 9:30 a.m. (Mass)
- Sunday 11:00 a.m. (Mass, Portuguese)
- Tuesday 6:30 p.m. (Mass, Portuguese)
- Wednesday 9:00 a.m. (Mass, Portuguese)
- Thursday 9:00 a.m. (Mass)
- Friday 9:00 a.m. (Mass)
- Saturday 5:00 p.m. (Vigil Mass, Portuguese and English)

The Saturday 5:00 p.m. Mass is bilingual, in Portuguese and English; the 9:30 a.m. Sunday Mass is in English. The parish's bulletins of June and August 2026 and the diocese's directory give the Portuguese Sunday Mass at 11:00 a.m., but the schedule on the parish's home page gives 11:30 a.m., so check with the parish office before going. Weekday Masses are celebrated in the chapel, in Portuguese on Tuesday and Wednesday and in English on Thursday and Friday. Confessions are heard on Saturday afternoon from 4:00 p.m. or by appointment, and there is Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on the first Friday of each month. The parish office and mailing address are at 146 Park Street North.

## Address
23 Sheaffe Street, Hamilton, ON L8R 2N7

## Contact
- Phone: 905-527-4216
- Website: https://stmaryshamilton.com
- Email: stmaryhamilton@hamiltondiocese.com
- Affiliation: Diocese of Hamilton

## What they believe
St. Mary's is a Roman Catholic parish of the Diocese of Hamilton, made up of a Portuguese community and an English-speaking community. It worships in the church it calls the original cathedral of the diocese, and describes St. Mary's as a 'first home' to successive groups of immigrants until they could establish parishes reflecting their own heritage. With the Catholic Church, it celebrates seven sacraments and holds that at Mass the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ.

## About this congregation
St. Mary's stands at the corner of Park Street North and Sheaffe Street, in the city's core. Its history goes back to a small frame and roughcast church completed nearby in 1838 under Father William MacDonald. On 24 May 1856 the first bishop of the new Diocese of Hamilton, John Farrell, made St. Mary's his cathedral, and when that wooden church burned in August 1859 he laid the cornerstone of the present brick and stone church in 1860. The City's heritage inventory credits the Gothic Revival design to Frederick Kortum and the interior to Zepherin Perrault, and describes a massive bell tower holding three bells cast at Troy, New York, in 1885, Bavarian stained glass installed between 1860 and 1899, and a carved high altar of 1860.

St. Mary's remained the bishops' cathedral until 1927, and after the Cathedral of Christ the King opened in 1933 it became known as St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral. The heritage inventory notes that it has served successive waves of Catholic immigrants, from the Irish of the 1840s to the Italians, Vietnamese and Portuguese of the twentieth century, and the parish says the Government of Ontario recognizes it as an Ontario History and Heritage Site. Father Luís Inácio became its pastor in June 2026.

The Saturday 5:00 p.m. Mass is in Portuguese and English. On Sunday, Mass is at 9:30 a.m. in English and at 11:00 a.m. in Portuguese, though the parish's home page gives 11:30 for the Portuguese Mass. Weekday Masses are held in the chapel: in Portuguese on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 9:00 a.m., and in English on Thursday and Friday at 9:00 a.m.

## About this listing
Part of Hamiltons.church. These listings cover a growing selection of congregations in Hamilton; they are not yet exhaustive.
Checked against: stmaryshamilton.com (retrieved 2026-10-18); crm.hamiltondiocese.com (retrieved 2026-10-18); vatican.va (retrieved 2026-10-18); hamilton.ca (retrieved 2026-10-18).
What Roman Catholic churches believe: https://hamiltons.church/denominations/catholic/