Welcome to the website of Saint Gregory the Great Church in Bluffton, South Carolina.  We’re a history-making congregation of Catholic people for several reasons.

One is the heritage of the Pinckney family, settlers of this Lowcountry region near Hilton Head who kept the faith, built their own family chapel, and expanded sufficiently to become a parish, Saint Andrew Church, in 1960.

A second reason that we’re history-making is the unprecedented growth of this parish family.  From 1995 to the present, the parish has increased its membership by more than 5,000 souls.  We were renamed Saint Gregory the Great Church in the year 2000 when a new, expansive parish facility was built to house a church and to begin developing an ambitious master plan for educational and other ministerial facilities.  From beginnings with South Carolina planters and educators, the parish membership now includes people from a diversity of professional backgrounds and racial, ethnic, and regional origins.

A third reason that we’re news makers is that the parish is noted for our volunteer spirit.  A prayerful and devout group of Catholics, we’re very active in service to church, civic community, and persons in need.

Faith, family, and fellowship characterize us.  Read on, and know that here amid marshlands and marvelous seascapes, there is a parish full of people who hold you in prayer.