Salt Lake City Diocese
| Salt Lake City Diocese | |
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| Country | United States |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of San Francisco |
| Diocesan bishop | Oscar Azarcon Solis |
| founding | 1887 |
| surface | 219,887 km² |
| Parishes | 48 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 2,946,100 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 295,000 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 10% |
| Diocesan priest | 64 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 7 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 4.155 |
| Permanent deacons | 76 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Friars | 10 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 27 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | Mary Magdalen's Cathedral |
| Website | www.utahcatholicdiocese.org |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City ( Latin Dioecesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi , English Diocese of Salt Lake City ) is in the United States located Roman Catholic diocese , based in Salt Lake City , Utah .
history
The Diocese of Salt Lake City was founded in 1887 by Pope Leo XIII. Established from the cession of territory by the Archdiocese of San Francisco as the Apostolic Vicariate of Utah . The Apostolic Vicariate of Utah was on January 27, 1891 by Leo XIII. raised to the diocese and renamed the diocese of Salt Lake . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of San Francisco as a suffragan . On March 27, 1931, the Diocese of Salt Lake gave parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Reno-Las Vegas . The Diocese of Salt Lake was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake City on March 31, 1951 .
territory
The Diocese of Salt Lake City includes the state of Utah .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Utah
- Lawrence Scanlan , 1886-1891
Bishops of Salt Lake
- Lawrence Scanlan, 1891-1915
- Joseph Sarsfield Glass CM , 1915-1926
- John Joseph Mitty , 1926–1932, then Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco
- James Edward Kearney , 1932–1937, then Bishop of Rochester
- Duane Garrison Hunt , 1937-1951
Bishops of Salt Lake City
- Duane Garrison Hunt, 1951-1960
- Joseph Lennox Federal , 1960-1980
- William Keith Weigand , 1980–1993, then Bishop of Sacramento
- George Hugh Niederauer , 1994–2005, then Archbishop of San Francisco
- John Charles Wester , 2007-2015
- Oscar Azarcon Solis , since 2017
