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The Port Elizabeth Oratory

Parish of St Bernadette

Parish of
St Bernadette

The Catholic Church in the heart of Walmer

Parish Life - Discipleship

Grow

Our various Grow groups assist
each person to follow Jesus

Serve

Use your skill or talent to built
the Kingdom of God at our parish

Give

Giving is integral to
our spiritual formation

The parish of St Bernadette is served by the fathers and brother of the Oratory. The parish and the Oratory (which share the same premises) have a close relationship.

Latest News and Events Events

Work on the installation of our new pipe organ began on Monday 19 January and is expected to take three weeks to …

Every year our parish, under the patronage of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, commemorates the World Day of Prayer for the Sick with …

17 & 18 January 2026, 2nd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Having celebrated Our Lord’s birth and epiphany, we now enter the period …

Sebastian Valfré was born in 1629 in Alba in Piedmont, now north-west Italy, and joined the Oratory in Turin on St Philip’s …

10 & 11 January 2026, FEAST OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD The feast of the Baptism of the Lord, in a …

The Oratory of St Philip rejoices to count among its sons the great sixteenth-century bishop and spiritual author Francis Sales (1567-1622), who …

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Physical Address: 
Corner of 8th Ave & Fordyce Road, Walmer
Postal Address: 
PO Box 5012, Walmer, 6065
Parish Office: 
Monday – Friday, 09:00-12:00: 073 247 1316
Email: 
parish@pe-oratory.org.za