About Immaculate Conception · Cuba, New Mexico
Immaculate Conception Parish is the central Catholic parish serving the village of Cuba, New Mexico, and a wide swath of northwestern New Mexico. Located on Main Street (US Highway 550), it is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup and is the mother parish for three mission churches: Mission of San Jose in Cabezon, Mission of Santo Niño de Atocha in La Jara, and Mission of San Aloysius Gonzaga in San Luis. The parish provides weekly Mass and confessions for a community that sits along the Continental Divide and serves as the supply hub for the surrounding ranching and small-village area.
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Rector
- Fr. Sandeep-Reddy Kommareddy (Pastoral Administrator)
- Diocese
- Diocese of Gallup
Why belong here
Immaculate Conception welcomes Catholics from Cuba and the surrounding ranching villages of northwestern New Mexico — including Cabezon, La Jara, San Luis, La Ventana, Guadalupe, and the edge of the Navajo Nation — to a faithful weekly worship tradition that has anchored the community since the early 1900s. As the mother parish for three missions, it offers a rare chance to belong to a parish family that serves an entire region of the Jemez Mountains and the Continental Divide. It is a small, mission-minded community that continues the work begun by the Franciscan Sisters more than a century ago.
Mass times at Immaculate Conception
Weekly Mass schedule
Confession times
- Saturday 4:00 – 4:45 pm
History of Immaculate Conception Parish
Catholic life in Cuba goes back well before the present church building. The first Catholic church in the village burned in 1905 and was rebuilt; that second church stood until 1965, when it was demolished and replaced with the present Immaculate Conception church on Main Street. In 1915, the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception built the Main Street church, and in 1921 they added a three-story convent and school that served the village's children for decades. According to a written statement by Fr. John Sarter, the statue that still stands in front of the church today was brought by wagon from Guadalajara in the 1800s and originally placed above the door of the original church.
- First Catholic church in Cuba: built in the 1800s, burned in 1905
- Second Catholic church built and demolished in 1965
- Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception built the Main Street church in 1915
- Three-story convent and school added by the Franciscan Sisters in 1921
- Current church constructed after the 1965 demolition of the second church
- Guadalajara statue brought by wagon in the 1800s; now in front of the present church
Pastor and Pastoral Leadership
The parish is currently served by Fr. Sandeep-Reddy Kommareddy as Pastoral Administrator, in coordination with the Diocese of Gallup. Earlier diocesan directories listed Fr. Mohana Bathineni in the same role, reflecting normal pastoral transitions in mission-country parishes.
- Fr. Sandeep-Reddy Kommareddy — Pastoral Administrator (current)
Missions of the Parish
Immaculate Conception serves as the mother parish for three historic mission communities in the surrounding countryside. These missions extend the parish's sacramental life to small, scattered Catholic populations across the northwestern New Mexico highlands.
- Mission of San Jose — Cabezon
- Mission of Santo Niño de Atocha — La Jara
- Mission of San Aloysius Gonzaga — San Luis
Vicariate and Diocese
The parish belongs to the San Juan Vicariate of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup, which covers western New Mexico and northern Arizona. The parish is listed in the Diocese of Gallup's official register of New Mexico parishes.
- Diocese: Diocese of Gallup
- Vicariate: San Juan