Welcome to Saints Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Parish, located in Tucson, Arizona. We serve Central Tucson and the Tucson Diocese. Founded in 1930, Saints Peter & Paul Parish is a Catholic community of approximately 2275 registered families.

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Saints Peter & Paul is an active, diverse and committed parish with religious and educational programs for all ages. We also have many programs in which we reach out in a variety of ways to those in need of assistance.

Our K-8 private religious school, Saints Peter & Paul Catholic School Community, is located on the Saints Peter & Paul parish grounds. Weekly Mass and other religious activities for the school take place at the Saints Peter & Paul Church. In this Christ-centered atmosphere, the unique qualities of each student are recognized. Children are encouraged to be life-long learners, and are taught to be active Christian leaders throughout their lives.

We are creating a "Legacy of Faith" that works to welcome, support and care for one another. Guided by the Holy Spirit, we seek to make Christ known in worship, hearing and sharing the faith of the Church, reception of the sacraments and living daily Christ’s call to love, service, compassion, generosity and justice.

On November 16, 1930 Bishop Daniel J. Gercke officially established the parish of Saints Peter and Paul in the expanding northeast quadrant of Tucson. Within in a month, work began on the “temporary” church, now called Madonna Hall. In the less then a year, the school opened for 160 youngsters. The founding pastor, Father John N. Patterson, had a vision for a quality elementary school, a hallmark of our parish all these years.

    The parish has grown in many ways. Not only did the school graduate many developing Catholics but the overall community “graduated”many developing priests Saints Peter and Paul parish became an appropriate first-experience for young clergy under the mentoring of pioneer-pastors like Father Patterson, Father James P. Davis (later the archbishop of Santa Fe), Father Francis J. Green (the bishop of Tucson after Bishop Gercke retired in 1960), and Father Arthur F. Gramer (retired in 1986 after almost 26 years as pastor - just about the same length of time John Paul II was Pope.)

The two-story convent was constructed in 1947. The rectory - parish offices complex was added in 1954. The parish buildings saw many additions and improvements over the decades. The highlight of all this of course was the completion of the present magnificent church in 1949. Coincidentally, Bishop Gercke officiated at the dedication ceremonies on his 75th birthday, October 9th of that year.

Here are a few “firsts”

First Baptism: Gretchen M. Ludenau on December 24, 1930, by Father Joseph N. Patterson, first Pastor. It took place in the “Chapel” a building at 10th street and north Park Avenue.

First First Holy Communion: Betty Richardson and 24 others on May 10, 1931. Father Joseph N. Patterson was the priest - celebrant.

First Confirmation: John Knost and 61 others on March 27, 1932. Bishop Daniel J. Gercke officiated.

First Marriage: Edgar Lauthier and Regina Duggan Wunsch on February 17, 1931, witnessed by Father Joseph N. Patterson in the parish “chapel” as noted above.  The first one in the original church building , now Madonna Hall, was on February 1, 1932, joining Louis Rupp and Clara Fittsworth in the Sacrament of Matrimony. The first wedding in the new church was October 14, 1949, between Morris Farrow and Marilyn Buchanan, then Father Francis J. Green doing the Honors.