Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City

Diocese of Salt Lake City
Dioecesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi
Location
Country United States
Territory State of Utah
Metropolitan San Francisco
Statistics
Area 84,990 sq mi (220,100 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2014)
2,900,872
291,000 [1] (10%)
Parishes 48[1]
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established January 27, 1891
Cathedral Cathedral of the Madeleine
Patron saint St. Mary Magdalene
St. Joseph
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Sede Vacante
Metropolitan Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
Map
Website
Diocese of Salt Lake Site

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, officially, in Latin, Dioecesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi, is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. It comprises the entire state of Utah. Also known as the Utah Catholic Church or the See of Salt Lake City, its mother church is the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. The see is currently vacant (sede vacante) as of April 27, 2015, when Pope Francis appointed Bishop John Charles Wester, the Diocese's ninth bishop, as Metropolitan Archbishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, succeeding the retiring Archbishop Michael Jarboe Sheehan, 75.

Salt Lake City is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, along with the dioceses of Honolulu, Las Vegas, Oakland, Reno, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Stockton. The Metropolitan is Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.

History

Cathedral of the Madeleine, looking east

In 1871 Fr. Patrick Walsh built the first Catholic Church in Utah, dedicating it to St. Mary Magdalene. Father (later Bishop) Lawrence Scanlan arrived in 1873 to become pastor. He took care of the Catholic military men, immigrant miners and railroad workers who numbered in the hundreds. Small churches, schools, an orphanage and a hospital were built, staffed by clergy and by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, to serve the growing Catholic population. As the nineteenth century came to a close, the Catholic community in Salt Lake City was rapidly outgrowing the small church of St. Mary Magdalene. The Church in Utah became an Apostolic Vicariate in 1887, and a Diocese in 1891. Bishop Lawrence Scanlan was the first Catholic bishop of Utah. Ground was broken for the new church in 1899. Construction for the Cathedral of the Madeleine would last nearly a decade, costing a small fortune for the estimated 3,000 Catholics in Utah at the turn of the century. Assistance was obtained from Catholic Mission Societies.[2]


Ordinaries

The following are the lists of bishops and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their dates of service.

Bishops

  1. Lawrence Scanlan † (November 23, 1886 – May 10, 1915, died)
  2. Joseph Sarsfield Glass † (June 1, 1915 – January 26, 1926, died)
  3. John Joseph Mitty † (June 21, 1926 – January 29, 1932, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco)
  4. James Edward Kearney † (July 1, 1932 – July 31, 1937, appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester)
  5. Duane Garrison Hunt † (August 6, 1937 – March 31, 1960, died)
  6. Joseph Lennox Federal † (March 31, 1960 – April 22, 1980, retired) (had become auxiliary bishop in 1952 and coadjutor bishop in 1958)
  7. William Kenneth Weigand (September 9, 1980 – November 30, 1993, appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento)
  8. George Hugh Niederauer (November 3, 1994 – December 15, 2005, appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco)
  9. John Charles Wester (January 8, 2007 – April 27, 2015, appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe)[1]

Auxiliary Bishops

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

Education

Superintendents of Schools

High Schools

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Diocese of Salt Lake City". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. 1 April 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  2. ↑ "History of the Diocese". Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  3. ↑ Curtis, Georgina Pell (1961). The American Catholic Who's Who. XIV. Grosse Pointe, Michigan: Walter Romig.
  4. ↑ "Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church". www.sjb-parish.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  5. 1 2 "Mark Longe is new head of Utah Catholic Schools - Intermountain Catholic". www.icatholic.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08.

Coordinates: 40°45′00″N 111°52′59″W / 40.7500°N 111.8830°W / 40.7500; -111.8830

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