St Joseph Syro Malabar Catholic Church, Oshawa 

A Christian community of love, driven to serve God and Neighbours

Welcome to St Joseph Syro Malabar Catholic Church, Oshawa, Canada. 

We are a vibrant community of Syro Malabar Catholic families residing in the Durham Region, the largest geographical jurisdiction in the east – end of the Greater Toronto Area. We felt the desire to establish a community to preserve our identity and to inculcate the tradition to our children, hence we rented a local Catholic Church in Oshawa, which was inaugurated by then Protosyncellus (Vicar General) of Eparchy of Mississauga, Monsignor Sebastian Arikat on August 19, 2018, and started as a Mission under the Syro Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Mississauga, Canada. Rev Father Jacob Edakalathoor was appointed as a first Vicar of the Mission. Our core values derived from a rich heritage which is rooted in the culture, traditions and beliefs of the century’s old Catholic community in Kerala, India.

On May 26, 2019, the St Joseph Syro-Malabar Mission was raised to the status of a Parish, by Major Archbishop of Syro Malabar Catholic Church, His Beatitude George Cardinal Alencherry and by His Excellency Mar Jose Kalluvelil, the Bishop of the Eparchy of Mississauga, with a new title, St. Joseph Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Oshawa, with its boundaries stretching from Lake Ontario in the south to Lake Simcoe in the north. We meet on Sundays for Holy Mass (Qurbana), followed by the Catechism classes and an informal social gathering. We welcome you to our dynamic and ever-growing community. May St. Joseph, the patron of our parish, intercede for you and your family. 

All are welcome!