Diocese of Amarillo
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| Country | United States |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of San Antonio |
| Diocesan bishop | Patrick James Zurek |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | John Walter Yanta |
| founding | 1926 |
| surface | 67,185 km² |
| Parishes | 35 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Residents | 422,448 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Catholics | 39,609 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| proportion of | 9.4% |
| Diocesan priest | 37 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Religious priest | 11 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 825 |
| Permanent deacons | 47 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Friars | 12 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| Religious sisters | 106 ( 12/31/2006 / AP2007 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | St. Mary's Cathedral |
| Website | www.amarillodiocese.org |
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The Diocese of Amarillo ( Latin : Dioecesis Amarillensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese located in Texas in the United States , with its seat in Amarillo . It includes the Texas Panhandle in northern Texas.
history
Pope Pius XI founded it with the Apostolic Constitution Pastoris aeterni on August 3, 1926 from cessions of territory of the Diocese of Dallas and the Archdiocese of San Antonio , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.
On October 16, 1961 and March 25, 1983, it lost parts of its territory to the Diocese of San Angelo and Diocese of Lubbock .
Bishops of Amarillo
- Rudolph Aloysius Gerken (August 25, 1926 - June 2, 1933, then Archbishop of Santa Fe )
- Robert Emmet Lucey (February 10, 1934 - January 23, 1941, then Archbishop of San Antonio )
- Laurence Julius FitzSimon (August 2, 1941 - July 2, 1958)
- John Louis Morkovsky (August 18, 1958 - April 16, 1963, then Coadjutor Bishop of Galveston-Houston )
- Lawrence Michael De Falco (April 16, 1963 - August 28, 1979)
- Leroy Theodore Matthiesen (March 18, 1980 - January 21, 1997)
- John Walter Yanta (January 21, 1997 - January 3, 2008)
- Patrick James Zurek (since January 3, 2008)
See also
Web links
Commons : Diocese of Amarillo - Collection of images, videos and audio files
