About St. Francis Chapel · Cypremort Point, Louisiana
St. Francis Chapel is a small Roman Catholic mission church located on LA Highway 319 in Cypremort Point, an unincorporated coastal community in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. As a mission — rather than an independent parish — it is served by St. Helena Catholic Church in nearby Louisa, and it falls under the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana's South Deanery, which gathers the parishes of St. Mary, St. Martin, and Iberia civil parishes. Because Cypremort Point is a quiet, sparsely populated stretch of the Louisiana coast, the chapel is essentially a seasonal and small-community worship site for residents, visitors, and fishermen of the Point. Diocesan directory listings identify it simply as a mission of St. Helena, Louisa.
- Patron
- St. Francis (of Assisi)
- Diocese
- Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana
Why belong here
St. Francis Chapel offers the small coastal community of Cypremort Point a regular Catholic presence along an otherwise quiet stretch of St. Mary Parish's Bayou Teche / Atchafalaya coastal area. Because it is a mission of nearby St. Helena Parish in Louisa, it draws worshippers who appreciate an intimate, neighborhood-scale Catholic worship site close to home, with sacramental care and pastoral oversight provided through the parish cluster of the Diocese of Lafayette's South Deanery. Visitors and seasonal residents are explicitly welcomed to celebrate Mass with the local faith community when they are on the Point.
Identity & Status
St. Francis Chapel is a mission church of the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana, formally attached to St. Helena Catholic Church in Louisa, also in St. Mary Parish. The Diocese of Lafayette's South Deanery directory lists it simply as "St. Francis Mission, Cypremort Point." Because it is a mission rather than a stand-alone parish, it does not have its own pastor on the diocesan books; sacramental and pastoral ministry is provided through St. Helena Parish. GCatholic's database identifies the chapel by its civil location (LA Hwy. 319, Cypremort Point, 70538) and confirms it as a mission of the Church of St. Helena, Louisa.
- Type: Mission (Roman Catholic, Latin Rite)
- Parent parish: St. Helena Catholic Church, Louisa, LA
- Deanery: South Deanery, Diocese of Lafayette
- Parishes in the South Deanery are drawn from St. Mary, St. Martin, and Iberia civil parishes
Location & Community
Cypremort Point is a small, unincorporated coastal community at the end of LA Highway 319 where it reaches toward the Atchafalaya Basin and the coast of St. Mary Parish, well west of Louisa and Franklin. Because the community is small and partly seasonal, the chapel functions primarily as a local worship site rather than a regional parish. GCatholic and Discover Mass both place the mission along LA Highway 319 in the 70538 ZIP code, and CatholicClocks locates it at 3074 Hwy 319. The mission shares a phone line (337-828-3869) with the St. Helena parish office.
- ZIP code: 70538 (St. Mary Parish)
- Road: Louisiana Highway 319, Cypremort Point
- Parish cluster: St. Mary Parish, on the Louisiana coast
Mass & Sacraments
As a small mission, St. Francis Chapel's published schedule is sparse and is normally handled through St. Helena Parish in Louisa. External Mass-time directories (Discover Mass, CatholicClocks) return no regular weekly schedule for the chapel under its own listing and direct visitors to call the parish office for current Mass times. Because no published weekly schedule could be verified during research, no regular Mass times, confession times, or adoration times are listed here — visitors should contact St. Helena Parish at the listed phone number to confirm current services.
- Direct visitors are advised to call 337-828-3869 for the current schedule
- Pastoral care is coordinated through St. Helena Catholic Church, Louisa
Visiting & Contact
The mission can be reached through the St. Helena Parish phone line at (337) 828-3869. The diocesan Parish Finder on diolaf.org routes inquiries to the South Deanery cluster of parishes that includes St. Helena and its mission. Because the chapel has no independent website or social media presence, the diocesan directory and aggregator sites (GCatholic, Discover Mass, CatholicClocks) are the best public references and they all consistently identify St. Francis Chapel as a mission rather than a parish.
- Phone: (337) 828-3869 (St. Helena Parish)
- Diocesan listing: diolaf.org Parish Finder
- GCatholic Church ID: 35277
- No official website, Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube channel located
Not to Be Confused With…
There is a far more famous St. Francis Chapel of Pointe Coupée in New Roads, Louisiana, on the National Register of Historic Places, founded as a mission community in 1728 and a mission of St. Mary of False River Parish in Pointe Coupée Parish. That historic Gothic Revival chapel (built 1894–95) is in the Diocese of Baton Rouge, not the Diocese of Lafayette, and serves a completely different community on the Mississippi River. The Cypremort Point mission documented here is the South Deanery mission listed under St. Helena Parish, Louisa.
- Cypremort Point mission: Diocese of Lafayette, attached to St. Helena, Louisa
- Pointe Coupée chapel: Diocese of Baton Rouge, mission of St. Mary of False River, New Roads
- Two completely separate chapels in different parts of south Louisiana