Diocese of Dallas
Diocese of Dallas | |
Basic data | |
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Country | United States |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of San Antonio |
Diocesan bishop | Edward James Burns |
Auxiliary bishop | Gregory Kelly |
Episcopal Vicar | Milam J. Joseph |
founding | 1890 |
surface | 19,475 km² |
Parishes | 74 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 ) |
Residents | 3,975,996 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 ) |
Catholics | 1,258,656 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 ) |
proportion of | 31.7% |
Diocesan priest | 136 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 ) |
Religious priest | 82 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 ) |
Catholics per priest | 5,774 |
Permanent deacons | 179 (31.12.2015 / AP2016 ) |
Friars | 94 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 ) |
Religious sisters | 94 ( 12/31/2015 / AP2016 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
cathedral | Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe |
Website | www.cathdal.org |
Ecclesiastical province | |
The Diocese of Dallas ( Latin : Dioecesis Dallasensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese located in Texas in the United States , with its seat in Dallas .
history
The Diocese of Dallas was on July 15, 1890 by Pope Leo XIII. established from cessions of territory by the diocese of Galveston . In 1891 parts of the area of the Vicariate Apostolic Arizona were assigned to the Diocese of Dallas . On October 20, 1953, the Diocese of Dallas was renamed the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth . The diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth was divided on August 9, 1969 into the dioceses of Dallas and Fort Worth . The diocese of Dallas gave several times in its history parts of its territory to establish new dioceses. It is subordinate to the Archdiocese of San Antonio as a suffragan .
The territory of the Diocese of Dallas includes the counties of Collin , Dallas , Ellis , Fannin , Grayson , Hunt , Kaufman , Navarro and Rockwall in northern Texas .
Bishops
- Thomas Francis Brennan , 1891-1892
- Edward Joseph Dunne , 1893-1910
- Joseph Patrick Lynch , 1911–1954
- Thomas Kiely Gorman , 1954–1969
- Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe , 1969–1990
- Charles Victor Grahmann , 1990-2007
- Kevin Joseph Farrell , 2007–2016, then Bishop of the Curia
- Edward James Burns , since 2016