St Luke’s

Established in the mid 1960s, St Luke’s arose in response to booming post-war immigration. By the 1970s, 40 per cent of the suburb’s residents were Italian. During this time, the Scalabrian Missionaries—with their long history of accompanying and serving migrant and refugee communities—took over the care of this rapidly growing multicultural parish community, and have done so ever since. The church remains a place of welcome and a centre of devotional and community life for many who have come from overseas to make a new life for themselves in Melbourne.