St. Peter's Catholic Church is a church located on Federal Street in downtown

Portland, Maine Portland is the List of municipalities in Maine, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat, seat of Cumberland County, Maine, Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 at the 2020 census. The Portland metropolit ...

, United States. Owned by the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland The Diocese of Portland () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church for the entire state of Maine in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Boston. The mother churc ...

, the church was built in 1929, and—being in the city's Italian neighborhood centered on

India Street India Street is a downtown street and neighborhood in Portland, Maine, United States. Situated near the western foot of Munjoy Hill, it runs for around , from Congress Street in the northwest to Commercial Street and Thames Street in the s ...

—today hosts Italian cultural events, including the annual Italian

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on the feast day of Saint Rocco. It held its 97th bazaar in 2023. An engraving above the middle of its three doors reads "Tu Es Petrus" (''You are Peter''). , its priest is the Very Revd. Seamus Griesbach."About Us"
– St. Peter Parish official website

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