Saint Bonaventure (Italian: San Bonaventura, Spanish: San Buenaventura) was an Italian Franciscan theologian and saint who lived in the 13th century. He is considered one of the 36 Doctors of the Catholic Church. Mission San Buenaventura was dedicated to the saint by Father Junípero Serra in 1782. In recent years, promoters of the City of… Read more »

Junípero Serra y Ferrer was a Franciscan missionary priest, born on the island of Majorca, Spain in 1713. He founded one mission in Baja California, and the first nine of the 21 (Alta) California missions. He founded Mission San Buenaventura in 1782, his ninth and last.

Quick Info Name: Mission San Buenaventura Address: 210 E. Main St., Ventura, CA 93001-2623 Pastor: Fr. Tom Elewaut, V.F. Office Manager: Claudia Tellez Phone: (805) 643-4318 Email: parishoffice@sanbuenaventuramission.org Description A currently active Roman Catholic parish with day-school, Mission San Buenaventura is one of the 21 Spanish Missions founded in California in the 18th and 19th… Read more »

  Downtown Ventura is the historic and original part of the City of Ventura, originally centered around the San Buenaventura Mission on what is now East Main Street.