Diocese of San Bernardino
Diocese of San Bernardino | |
Basic data | |
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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 | |
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 .
history
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
- Phillip Francis Straling (1978–1995, then Bishop of Reno )
- Gerald Richard Barnes (since 1995)
Auxiliary bishops
- Gerald Richard Barnes (1992–1995)
- Dennis Patrick O'Neil (2001-2003)
- Rutilio Del Riego Jáñez (since 2005)
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Diocese of San Bernardino (English)
- Entry on the Diocese of San Bernardino on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Bernardine of Siena. Official website of the Diocese of San Bernardino. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
- ↑ Our Lady of Guadalupe. Official website of the Diocese of San Bernardino. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
- ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Apostolici officii , AAS 70 (1978), n.8, p. 450f.
- ↑ a b History of the Diocese of San Bernardino. Official website of the Diocese of San Bernardino. Retrieved May 24, 2014.