Offices

• Catholic Charities
  • Mission Statement- We proclaim the gospel vision of Jesus Christ as our mission by serving the needs of individuals and families, especially the poorest, and working with Church and community for justice, peace, and compassion in society
  • Services include: adoptions, counseling, maternity homes, senior employment, prison ministry, family housing, refugee resettlement, foster grandparents, disaster case management, and immigration legal services
• Educational Services
  • Catholic schools
  • Child nutrition program
  • Evangelization and Catechesis
• Marriage and Family
  • Mission Statement- As a department within the Christian Formation Secretariat, the Marriage & Family Life Office strives to build, acknowledge and to honor in all areas of the family, to promote family life throughout the Church and community, to provide marriage preparation to engaged couples, to provide programs for marriage enrichment, to reach out to those with troubled marriages, or those going through separation and/or divorce, or have lost a loved one through death,  and to the hurting family, in a respect for all life through Pastoral Care and  informational and instructional programs and events​
  • Services include: promoting family life throughout the Church and community and providing preparation and counseling for all aspects of marriage (pre-marriage, during marriage, separation/divorce, those who have lost loved ones)
• Respect Life
• St. Vincent de Paul (Pharmacy, Dining Room, Women's and Men's Shelters, Thrift Stores)
• Pastoral Ministries
• Stewardship Ministries
• Youth Ministry 

Special Ministries

• Youth Ministry
• Black Catholics
• Hispanic Apostolate
• Child and Youth Protection

Parishes

​Schools​

​Catholics in the Diocese

• 225,477 out of 991,335 people total (as of July, 2015)

 Interesting Facts

•  Pére Pierre Charlevoix, S.J., celebrated the first Eucharist in Baton Rouge on New Year's Day, 1772, on the present site of the Louisiana State Capitol Building
• The first permanent church in the region, built in 1738, was St. Francis Chapel of Pointe Coupée