Diocese of Sacramento
Diocese of Sacramento | |
Basic data | |
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Country | United States |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of San Francisco |
Diocesan bishop | Jaime Soto |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | William Keith Weigand |
founding | 1886 |
surface | 110,325 km² |
Parishes | 102 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Residents | 3,646,000 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Catholics | 1,016,193 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
proportion of | 27.9% |
Diocesan priest | 191 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Religious priest | 63 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Catholics per priest | 4,001 |
Permanent deacons | 149 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Friars | 86 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Religious sisters | 132 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | English |
cathedral | Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament |
Website | www.diocese-sacramento.org |
Ecclesiastical province | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento ( Latin Dioecesis Sacramentensis , English Diocese of Sacramento ) is one in the United States located Roman Catholic diocese , based in Sacramento , California .
history
The diocese of Sacramento was on May 28, 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. built from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Grass Valley and subordinated to the Archdiocese of San Francisco as a suffragan . On March 27, 1931, the Diocese of Sacramento gave parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Reno-Las Vegas . Another assignment was made on January 13, 1962 to establish the Stockton Diocese . On September 15, 1966, the Diocese of Sacramento gave the area Alpine County to the Diocese of Stockton.
territory
The diocese of Sacramento comprises the northeastern part of the state of California .
Bishops of Sacramento
- Patrick Manogue , 1886–1895
- Thomas Grace , 1896-1921
- Patrick Joseph James Keane , 1922–1928
- Robert John Armstrong , 1929–1957
- Joseph Thomas McGucken , 1957–1962, then Archbishop of San Francisco
- Alden John Bell , 1962-1979
- Francis Anthony Quinn , 1979-1993
- William Keith Weigand , 1993-2008
- Jaime Soto , since 2008
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of Sacramento (English)
- Entry on the Diocese of Sacramento on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)