Diocese of Green Bay

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Diocese of Green Bay
Map of the Diocese of Green Bay
Basic data
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
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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

See also

Web links

St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Green Bay