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.
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. The pastoral region includes chapels at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu Naval Air Station and Vandenberg Space Force Base. The region is divided into four deaneries.
The Santa Barbara Pastoral region has been governed by four auxiliary bishops since its foundation:
Parishes
Deanery I (Lompoc, Solvang, Santa Maria and Guadalupe)
Deanery II (Santa Barbara, Goleta, Montecito and Carpinteria)
Deanery III (Oxnard, Ventura, Ojai, Fillmore and Santa Paula)
Deanery IV (Simi Valley, Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, Moorpark and Camarillo)
California Missions
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
Private Roman Catholic Chapels
- Santa Cruz Chapel, on Santa Cruz Island near the Stanton Ranch
- Rancho Camulos Chapel, along the 126 Freeway between Fillmore and Piru
- Santa Clara del Norte Rancho Chapel, at the Lloyd-Butler Ranch, Saticoy
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
High schools
Elementary schools
- Holy Cross STEM School, Ventura
- La Purisima Concepcion Catholic School, Lompoc
- Notre Dame School, Santa Barbara
- Our Lady of the Assumption School, Ventura
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish School, Oxnard
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Montecito
- Sacred Heart School, Ventura
- St. Anthony School, Oxnard
- St. Jude the Apostle School, Westlake Village
- St. Mary of the Assumption School, Santa Maria
- St. Louis de Montfort School, Santa Maria
- St. Mary Magdalen School, Camarillo
- St. Paschal Baylon School, Thousand Oaks
- St. Raphael School, Goleta
- St. Rose of Lima School, Simi Valley
- St. Sebastian School, Santa Paula
- Santa Clara Elementary School, Oxnard
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
See also
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
List of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
References
External links