| St. Boniface Church | |
| Location Town: | 375 SE Church St., Sublimity, Oregon |
| Location Country: | United States |
| Construction Start Date: | 1889 |
| Completion Date: | 1889 |
| Structural System: | Wood frame |
| Style: | Carpenter Gothic |
St. Boniface Church is a historic Roman Catholic church building in Sublimity, Oregon, United States built in 1889.
St. Boniface is construction in the Carpenter Gothic style of architecture, it is a massive six-bay wooden structure with lancet stained glass windows and a steep sloping roof. The cross-adorned steeple above its front entrance reaches to a height of 110 feet above the ground. A historic cemetery adjoins the church building on one side.[1]
The first Catholics came to Sublimity in the 1870s. They were German immigrant farmers who came by rail from states like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska.[2] Originally, services were held in private homes. The first priest, Fr. Peter Juvenal Stampfl, arrived in 1879. He made the first entry in St. Boniface's parish records on December 3, 1879.[3]
St. Boniface Church is still an active parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland. Fr. Paul Materu is the current pastor.[4]