Diocese of Peoria
Diocese of Peoria | |
Basic data | |
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Country | United States |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Chicago |
Diocesan bishop | Daniel Robert Jenky CSC |
Coadjutor | Louis Tylka |
founding | 1875 |
surface | 43,856 km² |
Parishes | 162 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 1,899,308 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 188.420 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 9.9% |
Diocesan priest | 182 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 27 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 902 |
Permanent deacons | 141 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Friars | 34 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 181 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
cathedral | Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception |
Website | www.cdop.org |
Ecclesiastical province | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria ( Latin Dioecesis Peoriensis , English Diocese of Peoria ) is in the United States located Roman Catholic diocese , based in Peoria , Illinois .
history
The diocese Peoria was on February 12, 1875 by Pope Pius IX. Erected from assignments of territory by the Diocese of Chicago . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Chicago as a suffragan . On December 11, 1948, the Diocese of Peoria gave parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois .
territory
The Diocese of Peoria includes the areas of Bureau County , Champaign County , DeWitt County , Fulton County , Hancock County , Henderson County , Henry County , Knox County , LaSalle County , Livingston County , Logan County , Marshall County , Mason County , McDonough in the state of Illinois County , McLean County , Mercer County , Peoria County , Piatt County , Putnam County , Rock Island County , Schuyler County , Stark County , Tazewell County , Vermilion County , Warren County, and Woodford County .
Bishops of Peoria
- John Lancaster Spalding , 1876-1908
- Edmund Michael Dunne , 1909-1929
- Joseph Henry Leo Schlarman , 1930–1951
- William Edward Cousins , 1952–1958, then Archbishop of Milwaukee
- John Baptist Franz , 1959–1971
- Edward William O'Rourke , 1971-1990
- John Joseph Myers , 1990–2001, then Archbishop of Newark
- Daniel Robert Jenky CSC , since 2002
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of Peoria (English)
- Entry on the Diocese of Peoria on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)