Oakland Diocese

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Oakland Diocese
Map of Oakland Bishopric
Basic data
Country United States
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of San Francisco
Diocesan bishop Michael C. Barber SJ
Emeritus diocesan bishop John Stephen Cummins
founding 1962
surface 3,798 km²
Parishes 83 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 2,895,761 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 575.029 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 19.9%
Diocesan priest 183 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 181 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 1,580
Permanent deacons 110 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 372 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 332 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
cathedral Cathedral of Christ the Light
Website www.oakdiocese.org
Ecclesiastical province
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland ( Latin Dioecesis Quercopolitana , English Diocese of Oakland ) is a in the United States located Roman Catholic diocese , based in Oakland , California .

history

A first Catholic mission station in the area of ​​what is now the Diocese of Oakland was established towards the end of the 18th century. In 1836, the California mission stations were secularized by Mexico ; It was not until the 1840s that church life began again in the area of ​​today's diocese.

The Diocese of Oakland was finally on January 13, 1962 by Pope John XXIII. established with the Apostolic Constitution Ineunte vere from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and subordinated to this as a suffragan .

territory

The Diocese of Oakland includes the areas of Alameda County and Contra Costa County in the state of California .

Bishops of Oakland

Oakland: Cathedral of Christ the Light

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Oakland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Diocese of Oakland
  2. ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Ineunte vere , AAS 54 (1962), n.15, p. 839ff.