Diocese of Dodge City
Diocese of Dodge City | |
Basic data | |
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Country | United States |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Kansas City |
Diocesan bishop | John Balthasar Brungardt |
Emeritus diocesan bishop |
Ronald Michael Gilmore Stanley Girard Schlarman |
founding | 1951 |
surface | 59,547 km² |
Parishes | 48 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 216,793 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 50,707 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 23.4% |
Diocesan priest | 31 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 5 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,409 |
Permanent deacons | 7 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 5 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 63 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe |
Website | www.dcdiocese.org |
Ecclesiastical province | |
The Diocese of Dodge City ( Latin Dioecesis Dodgepolitana , English Diocese of Dodge City ) is in the United States located Roman Catholic diocese based in Dodge City , Kansas .
history
The Diocese of Dodge City was on May 19, 1951 by Pope Pius XII. built from cession of the diocese of Wichita and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Kansas City as a suffragan .
territory
The Diocese of Dodge City includes the state of Kansas lying areas Barber County , Barton County , Clark County , Comanche County , Edwards County , Finney County , Ford County , Grant County , Gray County , Greeley County , Hamilton County , Haskell County , Hodgeman County , Kearny County , Kiowa County , Lane County , Meade County , Morton County , Ness County , Pawnee County , Pratt County , Rush County , Scott County , Seward County , Stafford County , Stanton County , Stevens County, and Wichita County .
Bishops
- John Baptist Franz , 1951–1959, then Bishop of Peoria
- Marion Francis Forst , 1960–1976
- Eugene John Gerber , 1976–1982, then Bishop of Wichita
- Stanley Girard Schlarman , 1983-1998
- Ronald Michael Gilmore , 1998-2010
- John Balthasar Brungardt , since 2010
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of Dodge City (English)
- Entry for the Diocese of Dodge City on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)