St. James Catholic Church
715 North 57th Avenue West, Duluth, MN 55807
About St. James Catholic Church
St. James is the Catholic parish for West Duluth, at 715 North 57th Avenue West between the Denfeld and Spirit Valley neighborhoods. It was confirmed active in August 2026, which matters because the Diocese of Duluth has closed or consolidated a great many neighborhood parishes over recent decades.
It is clustered with St. Elizabeth Parish, with the parish office located here at St. James. Clustering is the dominant pattern in this diocese now: parishes remain open but share clergy and administration rather than operating independently. One practical consequence for anyone planning to attend is that Mass times at clustered parishes often rotate between sites, so a published schedule can be right for one weekend and wrong for the next.
The parish shares its site with the St. James campus of Stella Maris Academy, Duluth's consolidated Catholic school system, which teaches early childhood through grade 6 there. That pairing matters for west-side families: this is the only Stella Maris campus on this side of the city, and every other one requires a drive east.
Two things are unsettled. The street number is given as 715 by some sources and 721 by others, and the authoritative tiebreaks could not be read by automated fetch. And this guide publishes no Mass times for St. James, deliberately: neither the parish site nor the diocesan finder could be reached to confirm them, and in a clustered parish a stale schedule is worse than none, because the times may belong to the cluster rather than to this church and can send someone to an empty building. Contact the parish directly for Mass times.
Neighborhoods it serves
The most house per dollar in Duluth, and a high school worth the walk.
Spirit ValleyWest Duluth's main street, with a ski hill at the end of it.
SmithvilleRiver-corridor housing below, Bardon Peak above, and a radical labor college in its past.
Morgan ParkThe concrete company town US Steel built, and the neighborhood that outlived the mill.
Gary-New DuluthTwo company-era river towns that people now treat as one, and the service center for the far west end.
Where these facts come from
- Diocese of Duluth parish finder and the parish's own site, via a currency check run by content-regional on 2026-08-13 accessed 2026-08-13
Last reviewed 2026-08-13 by Guide editorial.