Stella Maris Miami
Stella Maris · at Miami
- Address
- Port of Miami
- Phone
- +1 305 374 9594
- Website
- https://www.stellamarismiami.org
- Hours
- Daily
Services available
- Chaplaincy / ship visits
- Chaplains visit ships in port (port chaplains) and serve at the welfare centre. Their role is pastoral support, practical help (transport, money-changing, hospital visits, family-emergency communication), and confidential conversation. You do not need to share their religion to ask for help.
- General welfare
- Catch-all category for the broader social, practical, and pastoral support a centre offers — recreation, sports, internet, advocacy, hospital visits, family-liaison, transport, and simply a quiet place to relax during a port call. If you're not sure what you need, walk in and ask.
About Stella Maris
Stella Maris (the Apostleship of the Sea) is the Catholic Church's official seafarer-welfare ministry. Founded in Glasgow in 1920, Stella Maris operates in around 330 ports across 60+ countries and is the largest single seafarer-welfare network. Chaplains visit ships in port, run port-side centres, and provide 24-hour pastoral and practical support. Like the Mission to Seafarers, Stella Maris serves seafarers of every faith and none.
The pastoral and practical care of seafarers — Catholic-rooted but inclusive — through ship visits, centres, helplines, and advocacy.
A Stella Maris centre will offer free wifi, chapel/quiet space, basic shop, and almost always transport to and from the ship. Chaplains conduct ship visits in many languages and will help arrange hospital visits, family-emergency communication, and legal aid where appropriate. The centres are typically open daily, with a chaplain available for confidential conversations.
No paperwork is required for routine visits — wifi, shop, transport, chapel — but bring your seaman's book if you want to access advocacy, legal aid, or any case the chaplain may take up with port-state-control or the ITF. For longer pastoral conversations, no preparation is needed; chaplains are bound by professional confidentiality.
At this port
This centre serves Miami in United States. Check the port page for shore-leave, visa, helpline, and PSC context that affects your call here.
Editorial confidence: how we grade. Welfare centre opening hours change — confirm before visiting.