St. Mary Catholic Church, Catholic church in North Carolina, United States

St. Mary Catholic Church is a church building near Greensboro featuring white walls and colored glass windows throughout its structure. Inside, traditional Catholic design elements create a space where worshippers gather regularly.

St. Mary's was built as a mission church for Greensboro's African-American Catholics and its first Mass was celebrated on September 16, 1928, by Bishop William J. Hafey of Raleigh. The Josephites staffed the parish, with Fr Charles Hannigan, SSJ, in particular, and the Daughters of Charity opened the parish school, Our Lady of Miraculous Medal, that same month. The school closed in 1972, and in October 1973 the church changed from an African-American parish into an integrated territorial parish. A new church building was erected off East Lee Street in the early 2000s, and both buildings are used for Mass.

Founded as a Black Catholic parish, St. Mary's became an integrated territorial parish in October 1973. By around 2000 about a third of parishioners were African-American, a third white, and a third exiles from civil wars in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In 2014 Emmanuel O. Ukattah, a Nigerian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, became the parish's first Catholic deacon of African descent.

Mass is celebrated at both the original church and the newer building off East Lee Street, so check which one hosts a given service before setting out. The parish lies within the Diocese of Charlotte, and the school that once adjoined it closed in 1972.

The parish school, Our Lady of Miraculous Medal, opened in September 1928 with a dozen children and soon passed 100 students, nearly all African-American; it closed in 1972. In 2014 Emmanuel O. Ukattah, a naturalized citizen born in Nigeria, became the first Catholic deacon of African descent in the parish's history.