About St. Patrick · Ford City, Missouri
St. Patrick is a small Catholic mission church in the rural community of Ford City, in Gentry County, northwest Missouri. It is canonically a mission of St. Peter Parish in nearby Stanberry, and is served by the same pastor — currently Father Karl Barman, OSB — who ministers to both communities from the Stanberry rectory. The parish belongs to the Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph and gathers the faithful of the Ford City area for weekly Sunday Mass, sacraments, and the wider life of the parish family shared with St. Peter's.
- Established
- 1874
- Patron
- St. Patrick
- Rector
- Father Karl Barman, OSB
- Diocese
- Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph
Why belong here
St. Patrick's is a small, rural Catholic mission that gives the faithful of Ford City and surrounding Gentry County farms a weekly place to worship together and receive the sacraments without driving to a larger town. As a mission of St. Peter's Stanberry, it shares in the pastoral care, faith formation, and community life of a broader parish family led by Father Karl Barman, OSB. For Catholics seeking a quiet, close-knit country parish rooted in the Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph's northwest Missouri tradition, St. Patrick's offers a welcoming and enduring home.
Mass times at St. Patrick
Weekly Mass schedule
Confession times
- 30 minutes before Mass or by appointment
About St. Patrick Mission, Ford City
St. Patrick is a small Catholic mission church in Ford City, Missouri, in the rural northwest corner of Gentry County. It is not a stand-alone parish but a mission of St. Peter Parish in nearby Stanberry, and it shares its pastor, parish staff, and sacramental life with that parish. The mission belongs to the Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph and gathers the Catholic faithful of the Ford City area for one Sunday Mass each week along with other sacraments supplied by the pastor.
- Mission of St. Peter Parish, 614 North Alanthus, Stanberry, MO 64489
- Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph
- Sunday Mass at 9:30 AM
History of St. Patrick
St. Patrick's is one of the old mission churches that trace their origin to the wave of Catholic settlement in northwest Missouri in the 1870s. According to the Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph's official chronology of parishes along the Highway 71 and I-29 corridors, Ford City was established as a Catholic station in 1874. The earliest sacramental records are believed to be preserved in the registers of the Conception community in Missouri; later Ford City records are interspersed with those of St. Peter Parish in Stanberry, the mission's parent parish.
- Established 1874 (Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph chronology)
- Early records possibly at Conception, Missouri
- Later records kept with St. Peter's, Stanberry
- More than 140 years of continuous Catholic presence in Ford City
Pastoral Leadership
St. Patrick's is served by the pastor of St. Peter's Parish in Stanberry. The current pastor is Father Karl Barman, OSB, a Benedictine priest who ministers to both the Stanberry parish and its Ford City mission. Father Karl can be reached through the parish office phone, his listed cell number, or the shared parish email.
- Pastor: Father Karl Barman, OSB
- Parish Phone: (660) 783-2159
- Father Karl's Cell: (573) 826-1826
- Parish Email: [email protected]
Parish Office, Location, and Contact
Day-to-day parish business is handled through the St. Peter's, Stanberry parish office. The Ford City mission itself sits on State Highway AA, just south of State Highway V, in Ford City, Gentry County, Missouri. The parish website is hosted on Weebly and serves both St. Peter's Stanberry and St. Patrick's Ford City from a single site.
- Address: State Highway AA (south of State Highway V), Ford City, MO 64489
- Phone: (660) 783-2159
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: stpetersandstpatricks.weebly.com
- Listed in GCatholic's directory of churches as Mission of St. Patrick (Church ID 35698)
Diocese and Wider Catholic Community
St. Patrick's belongs to the Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph, a Latin-rite diocese that covers much of western and northern Missouri. The mission is listed in GCatholic's directory and is one of many small historic Catholic missions and parishes that dot the rural landscape of the diocese. Sacramental and pastoral ties run not only to St. Peter's Stanberry but also, through the Benedictine presence at Conception Abbey, to the wider monastic missionary tradition of the region.
- Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph
- Roman (Latin) Rite
- Mission of St. Peter Parish, Stanberry
- Benedictine (OSB) pastoral leadership