Name of Church Saint Andrew the Apostle Church
Address 800 Taylor Drive, Sierra Vista AZ 85635
Phone number 520-458-2925
Website www.standrewsv.org
Mass times Saturday vigil, 5 pm. Sunday, 8 am, 10 am, noon (Spanish), 5 pm (Life Teen). Monday through Friday, 9 am & 12:05 pm. Saturday, 9 am. The parish serves a mission, Good Shepherd, in Whetstone, Arizona.
Confessions Saturdays, 3:30 – 4:45 pm, 30 minutes before Masses and by appointment.
Names of priests Monsignor Gregory Adolf, pastor. Father Rob Neske, parochial vicar. Father Robert Gonzalez, in residency. Monsignor Adolf is a former Lutheran pastor who converted to Catholicism and was ordained a priest for the diocese of Tucson in 1991. He is a member of the Kino Heritage Society (Jesuit Father Eusebio Kino, 1645-1711, once evangelized the region) and has led tours of Father Kino’s missions in Sonora. He has been active in efforts to promote the cause of Father Kino’s canonization. He has an extensive knowledge of Scripture and is known for his piety. Father Neske served as an Army Ranger chaplain. Like Monsignor Adolf, he is a convert, having previously been an Anglican priest. He was ordained to the priesthood at St. Andrew in 2016.
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Special parish groups and activities Bible study, Knights of Columbus, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Carmelite Community, Cursillo, Ladies of St. Andrew, Legion of Mary, prayer groups, rosary making group.
Music Various choirs sing at the Masses, including a Sunday choir, youth choir, Spanish choir and two Life Teen choirs.
Fellow parishioners This is a majority English-speaking community.
Parking There is a large parking lot on the parish grounds.
Additional observations St. Andrew is a parish of the Diocese of Tucson. It was founded in 1958. The parish has a 24-hour-a-day Divine Mercy Chapel (the DMC) behind the altar in the church in which visitors may come to adore the Blessed Sacrament. Its altar cloth reads “Hic Amor Aeternus Habitat” (“Here love eternally dwells.”) Kino Hall is the former church, and in 2006 was converted into a venue for parish events. The parish has a library with religious books. It’s an attractive church architecturally, with many nice works of religious art.