Most Reverend Slawomir Szkredka
Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles – Santa Barbara Pastoral Region
Santa Barbara
Pastoral Region
Santa Barbara Parishes
37 Parishes
1 Eastern Rite Catholic Churches
Santa Barbara Schools
17 Elementary Schools
7 High Schools
Santa Barbara Pastoral Region
Area
Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties
4 Seminaries
3 Cemeteries
Santa Barbara Pastoral Region
It covers Deaneries 1-4 and there are 37 parishes in the region in 19 cities that are located in the two counties of Ventura and Santa Barbara – the largest in area of the five regions.
Four of the original California Missions are in the region – La Purisima Concepcion (1787), Santa Ines (1804), Santa Barbara (the Queen of the Missions) (1786), and *San Buenaventura (1782).
*San Buenaventura is now a Minor Basilica.
The most remote inland parish is in New Cuyama -Immaculate Conception- and the most remote from Los Angeles is in Guadalupe on the Central Coast -Our Lady of Guadalupe. Three chapels are on military bases -Port Hueneme, Point Mugu and Vandenberg.
St. John’s Seminary for the archdiocese is in the region, opened in 1939 and is located in Camarillo. The region is home to over 1 million Catholics.
The Most Reverend Slawomir Szkredka is the regional auxiliary bishop of the Santa Barbara Pastoral Region. The succession for the region includes Reverend Leon Hutton, Episcopal Vicar (August 2022-September 2023, Most Reverend Robert E. Barron (2015-2022), Msgr. Michael J. Jennett (Episcopal Vicar, 2013-2015), Bishop Thomas J. Curry (1994-2013), Msgr. John Rohde, Episcopal Vicar (1992-1994), and Bishop Patrick Ziemann (1986-1992).
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Most Reverend Slawomir Szkredka
Auxiliary Bishop
Born May 12, 1974 in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland. Bishop Szkredka attended Kraków’s Metropolitan Seminary and continued at SS. Cyril & Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2002. He was Parochial Vicar at St. Genevieve Church in Panorama City and at St. John the Baptist Church in Baldwin Park, before beginning graduate studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 2008. He returned to the Los Angeles Archdiocese to serve as a professor and formator at St. John’s Seminary in 2015 and earned his doctorate in Sacred Scripture in 2017.
Assistant to the Regional Bishop:
Deacon Chris Sandner
Regional Deans (Vicars Forane)
Deanery 1: Fr. Altaire Fernandez, V.F.
Deanery 2: Fr. Lawrence Seyer, V.F.
Deanery 3: Fr. Leon Hutton, V.F.
Deanery 4: Fr. Riz Carranza, V.F.
Parishes in this Region
Cemeteries:
- Assumption Cemetery & Mausoleum, Simi Valley
- Calvary Cemetery & Mausoleum, Santa Barbara
- Santa Clara Cemetery & Mortuary, Oxnard
Addresses:
Office of Santa Barbara Region:
3240 Calle Pinon
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Phone Number: (805) 682-0442
Office of Religious Education for Santa Barbara Region:
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 6837
Santa Maria, CA 93456
P: (805) 569-1135
Meet the Staff
Dn. Christopher Sandner
Regional Assistant to Bishop Slawomir Szkredka
Silvia Morgan
Executive Assistant to Bishop Slawomir Szkredka
Juan Pablo Garcia
Santa Barbara Regional Coordinator (Religious Education)
Esmeralda Barragan
Administrative Secretary – Santa Barbara
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ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES DIRECTORY
The Archdiocese comprises three counties — Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara – all divided into five pastoral regions). The Directory lists all address and telephone information of archdiocesan offices, parishes, schools and seminaries, as well as services/outreach programs within the Archdiocese.
