Pilgrimage Sites

Step into Christ, Step out to Mission ~ Holy Doors of Mission

During the Jubilee Year, a plenary indulgence will be granted to all the faithful who meet the usual conditions and visit any of the pilgrimage sites within the Archdiocese to spend some time there at least to pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be with the intention of uniting themselves with the missionary spirit of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Star of the New Evangelization, and St. Junípero Serra, founder of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. 

A Holy Door represents Jesus Christ, who states: “I am the door” (John 10:1). Christ is the entry to new life. To cross the threshold of the Holy Door is to step into Christ, and to pass through the doors of the Church into the world is to step into mission. The Lord we encounter in the Church, above all in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, sends us forth from there to be missionaries of the Gospel. 

Santa Barbara Pastoral Region

Deanery 1 – Mission Santa Inés (Solvang); founded on September 17, 1804, the 19th of the 21 California missions
Deanery 2 – Mission Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara); founded on December 4, 1786, the 10th of the 21 California missions
Deanery 3 – Mission Basilica San Buenaventura (Ventura); the last of the 9 missions founded by St. Junípero Serra on March 31, 1782. 
Deanery 4 – St. Mary Magdalen Chapel (Camarillo)

San Fernando Pastoral Region

Deanery 5 – St. Joseph the Worker (Winnetka)
Deanery 6 – Holy Family Church (Glendale)
Deanery 7 – Mission San Fernando Rey de España (San Fernando); founded on September 8, 1797, the 17th of the 21 California missions
Deanery 8 – Sacred Heart Church (Lancaster)

San Gabriel Pastoral Region

Deanery 9 – Resurrection Church (Los Angeles)
Deanery 10 – Mission San Gabriel Arcángel (San Gabriel); founded by St. Junípero Serra on September 8, 1771, the 4th of the 21 Califonia missions. 
Deanery 11 – Our Lady of Guadalupe Church (Irwindale)
Deanery 12 – San Lorenzo Ruiz Church (Walnut)

Our Lady of the Angels Pastoral Region

Deanery 13 – St. Clement Church (Santa Monica)
Deanery 14 – Christ the King (Hollywood) 
Deanery 15 – Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Our Lady Queen of the Angeles (“La Placita”) (Los Angeles); founded in 1784 as an asistencia to Mission San Gabriel
Deanery 16 – St. Columbkille Church (Los Angeles)

San Pedro Pastoral Region

Deanery 17 – St. Emydius Church (Lynwood)
Deanery 18 – St. Mary of the Assumption Church (Whittier)
Deanery 19 – St. Joseph Church (Hawthorne) and St. Catherine of Alexandria Church (Avalon); Masses of Thanksgiving were celebrated on Santa Catalina Island when Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo landed on October 7, 1542 and Sebastián Vizcaíno on November 25, 1602 
Deanery 20 – St. Anthony Church (Long Beach)