Diocese of Boise
Diocese of Boise | |
Basic data | |
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Country | United States |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon |
Diocesan bishop | Peter Forsyth Christensen |
Vicar General | Dennis Joseph Wassmuth Joseph Andre da Silva |
founding | 1893 |
surface | 218,272 km² |
Parishes | 52 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
Residents | 1,612,136 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
Catholics | 177,335 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
proportion of | 11% |
Diocesan priest | 73 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
Religious priest | 16 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1.993 |
Permanent deacons | 85 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
Friars | 19 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
Religious sisters | 66 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
cathedral | Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist |
Website | www.catholicidaho.org |
Ecclesiastical province | |
The Diocese of Boise (also Boise City , latin Dioecesis Xylopolitana , English Diocese of Boise [City] ) is one in the United States located Roman Catholic diocese , based in Boise , Idaho .
history
The diocese of Boise was on March 3, 1863 by Pope Pius IX. established from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Oregon City as Vicariate Apostolic Idaho and Montana . On March 5, 1883, the Vicariate Apostolic Idaho and Montana gave parts of its territory to establish the Vicariate Apostolic Montana and was renamed the Vicariate Apostolic Idaho . The Apostolic Vicariate Idaho was on August 25, 1893 by Pope Leo XIII. raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of Boise City .
The Diocese of Boise is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon as a suffragan .
territory
The Diocese of Boise includes the state of Idaho . It is one of the few bishoprics in the USA whose borders are congruent with those of a state , other examples are the Diocese of Cheyenne and the Diocese of Providence .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Idaho and Montana
- Louis Aloysius Lootens , 1868–1876
Vicars Apostolic of Idaho
- Alphonse Joseph Glorieux , 1884-1893
Bishops of Boise
- Alphonse Joseph Glorieux, 1893–1917
- Daniel Mary Gorman , 1918-1927
- Edward Joseph Kelly , 1927-1956
- James Joseph Byrne , 1956–1962, then Archbishop of Dubuque
- Sylvester William Treinen , 1962–1988
- Death of David Brown , 1988–1998, then Bishop of Orange in California
- Michael Patrick Driscoll , 1999-2014
- Peter Forsyth Christensen , since 2014