Stella Maris Santos
Stella Maris · Brazil
- Address
- Porto de Santos
- Phone
- +55 13 3219 4300
- Website
- https://www.stellamaris.org.uk/br/santos
- 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.
- Counselling
- Chaplains and welfare workers provide confidential one-to-one counselling on personal, family, financial, or work-related concerns. Conversations are bound by professional confidentiality. For longer-term mental-health support, the Sailors' Society's Wellness at Sea programme and ISWAN's SeafarerHelp 24-hour multilingual helpline are also accessible from any centre.
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.
Editorial confidence: how we grade. Welfare centre opening hours change — confirm before visiting.