Saint Patrick's Basilica has a long history in the City of Ottawa, being its first English-speaking Roman Catholic Parish. Your Church was completed in 1875 and was declared a Basilica on Saint Patrick's Day, March 1995. The Church is named for an Irish missionary named Maewyn Succat. Fifteen hundred years ago he converted Ireland to Christianity, and was thenceforth known worldwide as Saint Patrick.

Beautiful as it is, Saint Patrick's Basilica is primarily a place of worship and repentance - Catholics citywide make use of the confessional at St.Patrick's. It also serves the downtown core and offers masses before work (7:00a.m., 8:00a.m.), during lunch (12:15p.m.), and after the workday (4:30p.m.), with confessions before each service.. For directions click here.