Diocese of Fresno
| Diocese of Fresno | |
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| Country | United States |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Los Angeles |
| Diocesan bishop | Joseph V. Brennan |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Armando Xavier Ochoa |
| founding | 1967 |
| surface | 91,268 km² |
| Parishes | 89 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 2,906,023 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 1,200,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 41.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 149 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 30 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 6.704 |
| Permanent deacons | 55 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 31 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 122 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | St. John's Cathedral |
| Website | dioceseoffresno.org/ |
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The Diocese of Fresno ( Latin Dioecesis Fresnensis , English Diocese of Fresno ) is a United States- located diocese of the Roman Catholic Church with its seat in Fresno , California .
territory
The Fresno Diocese is made up of the counties Fresno , Inyo , Kern , Kings , Madera , Merced , Mariposa and Tulare . Within the Bishops' Conference of the United States , it is assigned to Region XI, which includes the states of California, Hawaii, and Nevada .
history
The diocese was founded on October 6, 1967 from a division of the diocese of Monterey-Fresno , which had existed since 1922 . Timothy Manning was appointed first bishop of the diocese . The area of the diocese defined at that time has not changed since then. The number of Catholics when it was founded was approximately 307,000.
In 2010, the number of Catholics in the diocese was estimated at 1,084,000, the proportion of the total population was 39%.
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The patroness of the diocese is St. Therese von Lisieux , a religious who died in 1897 and is venerated today as a doctor of the church . Pope Pius XI she canonized in 1925. During a visit to Rome shortly before the canonization, the bishop of the then diocese of Monterey-Fresno , John Bernard MacGinley , asked the Holy Father to appoint Therese of Lisieux patroness of the diocese. However, since no church was consecrated in the diocese of the saints, but this was a prerequisite for the granting of patronage, the bishop renamed a newly formed parish in Fresno to St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus .
With St. Columban of Iona , the diocese has another, secondary patron. He was an Irish monk who died in 597. Columban served as a missionary in Scotland .
As the patron saint of the city of Fresno itself, the martyr Agnes of Rome is particularly venerated. A hospital in Fresno is named after her.
Bishops of Fresno
- Timothy Manning (1967–1969, then Archbishop of Los Angeles, California; † 1989)
- Hugh Aloysius Donohoe (1969–1980; † 1987)
- José de Jesús Madera Uribe MSpS (1980–1991, then auxiliary bishop in the US military ordinariate )
- John Steinbock (1991-2010; † 2010)
- Armando Xavier Ochoa (2011-2019)
- Joseph V. Brennan (since 2019)
Auxiliary bishops
- Roger Michael Mahony (1975-1980)
See also
Web links
- Entry on the Diocese of Fresno on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Website of the Diocese of Fresno (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry on the Fresno diocese on catholic-hierarchy.org
- ^ History of the Diocese of Fresno. ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official website of the diocese. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Presentation of the patroness of the diocese. ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official website of the Diocese of Fresno. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
