The mission of bakersfieldCATHOLIC is to provide relevant information to the greater Catholic community in Bakersfield, California in order to inspire a greater love for Christ through the reception of the Sacraments, reading and comprehension of Holy Scripture, accepting our Sacred Traditions, and participation in a life of contemplative prayer.

Catholicism in Bakersfield, California, is traced back to Padre Francisco Garces in 1776. The first permanent Catholic Church is St. Francis of Assisi Parish, opened to serve the faithful in July 1881. Nine Catholic parishes tend to the spiritual needs of over 19,000 registered Catholic families in Bakersfield, comprising a part of the 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide.
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