Parishes & Schools

The archdiocese’s African American ethnic ministry sees chess as an academic, social and spiritual game changer for students from all backgrounds.

Notre Dame Sister Barbara Hamm died on Aug. 29, 2020 at Mercy Retirement & Care Center in Oakland. In 2019 she celebrated her 75th anniversary as a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur. She was 93 years old.

Father Mathias Wambua, born in Kenya and raised in Nairobi, serves as a parochial vicar at Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco and leads an effort to establish a medical clinic in Kitengela, a poor neighborhood outside Nairobi.

Father Andrew Spyrow, vicar for clergy, announced the following clergy assignments on behalf of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on Sept. 17, 2020.

The St. Agnes pantry in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district draws clients as varied in cultures, customs and circumstances as the eclectic neighborhood in which it stands.