Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina
Diocese of Salina Dioecesis Salinensis | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Territory | 31 counties in North Central and Northwest Kansas |
| Ecclesiastical province | Kansas City in Kansas |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 26,685 sq mi (69,110 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 342,000 46,671 (14.1%) |
| Parishes | 86 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | August 2, 1887 as the Diocese of Concordia; December 23, 1944 as the Diocese of Salina |
| Cathedral | Sacred Heart Cathedral |
| Patron saint | Our Lady of Perpetual Help |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Bishop-elect Monsignor Gerald L. Vincke[1] |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Joseph Fred Naumann Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas |
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| Website | |
| salinadiocese.org | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina (Template:Lang-la) is a Roman Catholic diocese covering thirty-one counties in Kansas. The episcopal see is in Salina, Kansas. It was founded as the Diocese of Concordia on August 2, 1887, and on December 23, 1944, was renamed Diocese of Salina.[2]
Pope Benedict XVI named Monsignor Edward Joseph Weisenburger as the 11th Bishop of the Diocese of Salina on February 6, 2012. Bishop-elect Weisenberger was installed on May 1, 2012.[3][4][5][6]. Bishop Weisenberger left office as Salina's Bishop on November 29, 2017, after being appointed by Pope Francis to head the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson, replacing the retiring Catholic Bishop of Tucson, Gerald F. Kicanas.
On Wednesday, June 13, 2018, Pope Francis named the Reverend Monsignor Gerald L. Vincke (born 1964), a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing (based in Lansing, Michigan), who until then had been the parish priest (pastor) of the Holy Family Parish, in Grand Blanc, Michigan, as Bishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina, to succeed Bishop Weisenberger. He will be ordained and installed as Bishop at a date in the near future.[7]
Diocesan bishops
- Richard Scannell (1887–1891)
- John Joseph Hennessy (Apostolic Administrator, 1891–1898)
- Thaddeus J. Butler (1897), Bishop-elect
- John Francis Cunningham (1898–1919)
- Francis Joseph Tief (1920–1938)
- Francis Augustine Thill (1938–1957)
- Frederick William Freking (1957–1964)
- Cyril John Vogel (1965–1979)
- Daniel Kucera (1980–1983)
- George Kinzie Fitzsimons (1984–2004)
- Paul Stagg Coakley (2004–2010)
- Edward Joseph Weisenburger (2012–2017)
High schools
- Sacred Heart High School, Salina
- St. John's Catholic High School, Beloit
- St. Xavier High School, Junction City
- Thomas More Prep-Marian, Hays
- Tipton Catholic High School, Tipton
Ecclesiastical province
See also
- Catholic Church by country
- Catholic Church hierarchy
- List of the Catholic dioceses of the United States
References
- ^ http://usccb.org/news/2018/18-097.cfm
- ^ "Diocese of Salina". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ http://salinadiocese.org/the-register/2093-msgr-edward-j-weisenburger-appointed-11th-bishop-of-salina-diocese
- ^ "Google Translate". translate.google.com.
- ^ "Pope Appoints Oklahoma City Vicar General Bishop Of Salina". www.usccb.org.
- ^ Gordon Fielder, Jr., "New Catholic Diocese bishop ordained," Salina Journal, online at http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/Bishop-Weisenburger
- ^ http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/06/13/0438/00953.html
External links
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina Official Site
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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