Diocese of Green Bay
Diocese of Green Bay | |
Basic data | |
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Country | United States |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Milwaukee |
Diocesan bishop | David Ricken |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Robert Joseph Banks |
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus | Robert Fealey Morneau |
founding | 1868 |
surface | 27,775 km² |
Parishes | 157 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 1,017,267 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 345,870 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 34% |
Diocesan priest | 170 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 122 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 1,184 |
Permanent deacons | 133 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 153 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 399 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
cathedral | St. Francis Xavier |
Website | www.gbdioc.org |
Ecclesiastical province | |
Located in the US , the Diocesis of Green Bay ( Latin Diocesis Sinus Viridis , English Diocese of Green Bay ) based in Green Bay was founded on March 3, 1868 by Pope Pius IX. Erected by segregating areas of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee . As a suffragan diocese, it belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee.
history
Pope Pius IX established the diocese on March 3, 1868. It covers 16 counties in northeast Wisconsin on Lake Michigan .
The earliest Christian traces in the area of today's diocese were left by Jesuit missionaries who crossed Lake Michigan around 1634 in the wake of the French explorer Jean Nicolet . In 1669 Jesuit celebrated Claude-Jean Allouez with Indians on the feast of St. Francis Xavier , the Holy Mass and founded, named after the holy Indian mission. With the destruction of Fort Francis, west of what is now Green Bay, in 1728, Catholic life ended for almost a century. With the settlement of French-Canadian settlers, the establishment of church structures began again from 1825. In the 19th century, German, Belgian, Irish and Polish settlers founded their own parishes, whose linguistic independence soon dissolved through marriage and the growing influence of the English language.
With the establishment of the diocese, the German Marienkirche, built in 1854, was elevated to the status of a cathedral. Under Green Bay's second bishop Franz Xaver Krautbauer , today's cathedral was built on the same site and is consecrated to the diocese patron Franz Xaver. The model for the cathedral is the Ludwigskirche in Munich . Krautbauer won over the German Nazarene Johann Schmitt for the monumental altarpiece .
Bishops of Green Bay
- Joseph Melcher (1868–1873)
- Franz Xaver Krautbauer (1875–1885)
- Frederick Francis Xavier Katzer (1886-1891, then Archbishop of Milwaukee)
- Sebastian Gebhard Messmer (1891–1903, then Archbishop of Milwaukee)
- Joseph John Fox (1904-1914)
- Paul Peter Rhode (1915-1945)
- Stanislaus Vincent Bona (1945–1967)
- Aloysius John Wycislo (1968-1983)
- Adam Joseph Maida (1983–1990, then Archbishop of Detroit)
- Robert Joseph Banks (1990-2003)
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David Zubik (2003-2007, then Bishop of Pittsburgh)
- Timothy Dolan (2007-2008 as Apostolic Administrator )
- David Ricken (since 2008)
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of Green Bay (English)
- Entry for the Diocese of Green Bay on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)