Diocese of San Bernardino

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Diocese of San Bernardino
Map of the Diocese of San Bernardino
Basic data
Country United States
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Diocesan bishop Gerald Richard Barnes
Coadjutor Alberto Rojas (appointed)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Rutilio Del Riego Jáñez
founding 1978
surface 72,243 km²
Parishes 91 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Residents 4,901,000 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics 1,622,829 (2014 / AP 2015 )
proportion of 33.1%
Diocesan priest 152 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious priest 114 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics per priest 6.101
Permanent deacons 111 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Friars 135 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious sisters 133 (2014 / AP 2015 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language English
cathedral Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral
Website www.sbdiocese.org
Ecclesiastical province
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino ( Latin Dioecesis Bernardinopolitana , English Diocese of San Bernardino ) is in the United States located Roman Catholic diocese , based in San Bernardino , California .

The patrons of the diocese are Saint Bernard of Siena and Our Lady of Guadalupe .

Diocese coat of arms

history

Cathedral : Our Lady of the Rosary in San Bernardino

The diocese of San Bernardino was on July 14, 1978 by Pope Paul VI. Established with the Apostolic Constitution Apostolici officii from cessions of territory of the Diocese of San Diego and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as a suffragan .

The reason for the formation of the new diocese was mainly the population growth of Riverside Counties and San Bernardino Counties . Phillip Francis Straling was ordained the first bishop of the new diocese on November 6, 1978 in Riverside . The church of Holy Rosary in San Bernardino was designated as the cathedral . According to the July 1978 edition of the San Diego diocese newspaper, The Southern Cross , 85 wards, 235,665 parishioners, 171 priests and 31 Catholic schools were transferred to the diocese of San Bernardino.

The history of the Catholic Church in the area of ​​the later diocese of San Bernardino can be traced back to the 19th century. In 1842, settlers established the first town in the San Bernardino Valley, Agua Mansa , and the parish of San Salvador. After a severe flood in 1862, many of the pioneers migrated to Colton , where they built a church of the same name in 1893.

territory

The diocese of San Bernardino comprises the areas of Riverside County and San Bernardino County in the state of California .

Bishops of San Bernardino

  1. Phillip Francis Straling (1978–1995, then Bishop of Reno )
  2. Gerald Richard Barnes (since 1995)

Auxiliary bishops

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Bernardine of Siena. Official website of the Diocese of San Bernardino. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  2. ↑ Our Lady of Guadalupe. Official website of the Diocese of San Bernardino. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Apostolici officii , AAS 70 (1978), n.8, p. 450f.
  4. ↑ a b History of the Diocese of San Bernardino. Official website of the Diocese of San Bernardino. Retrieved May 24, 2014.