Archdiocese of Santa Fe
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| Country | United States |
| Diocesan bishop | John Charles Wester |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Michael Jarboe Sheehan |
| Vicar General | Richard J. Olona |
| founding | 1850 |
| surface | 158,296 km² |
| Parishes | 93 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Residents | 1,310,637 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics | 327,964 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| proportion of | 25% |
| Diocesan priest | 126 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious priest | 66 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,708 |
| Permanent deacons | 211 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Friars | 130 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| Religious sisters | 114 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi |
| Website | archdiocesesantafe.org/ |
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The Archdiocese of Santa Fe ( lat. : Archidioecesis Sanctae Fidei in America Septentrionali ; Administrative abbreviation SFE ) is a in the United States located Roman Catholic diocese , based in Albuquerque , New Mexico .
history
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe was on July 23, 1850 by Pope Pius IX. founded as the diocese of Santa Fe out of the archbishopric of Saint Louis . In 1868 territories were ceded to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Arizona and the Apostolic Vicariate of Colorado and Utah . On February 12, 1875 the elevation to the archbishopric took place. In 1939 the bishopric of Gallup and 1982 the bishopric of Las Cruces was founded from assignments .
In December 2018, the Archdiocese filed for bankruptcy because it could no longer make compensation payments to victims of sexual abuse by its priests.
The archbishopric is a metropolitan seat and belongs to Region XIII (AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY) of the Bishops' Conference of the United States . Subordinate suffragan dioceses are the dioceses of Gallup , Las Cruces , Phoenix and Tucson .
Bishop of Santa Fe
- John Baptist Lamy , 1853-1875
Archbishops of Santa Fe
- John Baptist Lamy , 1875-1885
- John Baptist Salpointe , 1885-1894
- Placide Louis Chapelle , Coadjutor Archbishop ( Titular Archbishop of Sebastea ) 1893-1894, Archbishop of Santa Fe 1894-1897, later Archbishop of New Orleans , Louisiana
- Peter Bourgade , 1899–1908
- John Baptist Pitaval , 1909-1918
- Albert Thomas Daeger OFM, 1919–1932
- Rudolph Aloysius Gerken , 1933–1943
- Edwin Vincent Byrne , 1943–1963
- James Peter Davis , 1964–1974
- Robert Fortune Sanchez , 1974-1993
- Michael Jarboe Sheehan , 1993-2015
- John Charles Wester , since 2015
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ US Archdiocese: Insolvency Proceedings for Abuse Cases. kath.net from December 3, 2018