Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas

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Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas Archidioecesis Kansanopolitana in Kansas
Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle
Coat of Arms of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
Location
Country	United States
Territory	21 Counties in Northeast Kansas
Ecclesiastical province	Kansas City in Kansas
Statistics
Area	12,524 sq mi (32,440 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2012) 1,320,000 in 2011: 205,531 (16.8%)
Parishes	120
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	May 22, 1877 as the Diocese of Leavenworth; May 10, 1947 as the Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle
Patron saint	Immaculate Conception St. John Mary Vianney
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Joseph Fred Naumann
Bishops emeritus	James Patrick Keleher
Map
Website
archkck.org

The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas (Latin: Archidioecesis Kansanopolitana in Kansas) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical province or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States of America.^[1]

The archbishop's episcopal seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Kansas City, Kansas. The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas is a metropolitan see. Its metropolitan archbishop oversees an ecclesiastical province with three suffragan dioceses: the Dioceses of Dodge City, Salina, and Wichita.^[2]

Territory[]

The Archdiocese comprises the following twenty-one counties of the U.S. state of Kansas:^[1]

History[]

The archdiocese was originally established as the Vicariate Apostolic of Indian Territory East of the Rocky Mountains on July 19, 1850 by Pope Pius IX. It was composed of the present day states of Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. It lost territory and its name was changed to the Vicariate Apostolic of Kansas in 1857. The vicariate was elevated to the Diocese of Leavenworth by Pope Leo XIII on May 22, 1877. It lost territory in 1887 when the dioceses of Concordia and Wichita were created, and in 1897 when several counties were moved to Concordia. The name of the diocese was changed to the Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas on May 10, 1947 by Pope Pius XII. All of these jurisdictions were in the Ecclesiastical Province of Saint Louis.^[1]

The Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas was elevated to an archdiocese by Pius XII on August 9, 1952. The province encompasses the entire state of Kansas and has three suffragan sees, the dioceses of Dodge City, Salina (formerly Concordia) and Wichita.^[1]

Reports of sex abuse[]

In February 2019, it was announced that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) had been investigating sex abuse allegations against the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas and its suffragan Dioceses in the state of Kansas since November 2018.^[3] On August 14, 2020, Melissa Underwood, spokeswoman for the KBI, stated in an email “As of Aug. 7, we have had 205 reports of abuse and have opened 120 cases.”^[4]

Ecclesiastical Province of Kansas City

Bishops[]

Apostolic Vicar of Indian Territory East of the Rocky Mountains[]

1. John Baptiste Miège, S.J. (1850–1857), title changed with title of apostolic vicariate

Apostolic Vicars of Kansas[]

1. John Baptiste Miège, S.J. (1857–1874)
2. Louis Mary Fink, O.S.B. (1874–1877), title changed with elevation to diocese

Bishops of Leavenworth[]

1. Louis Mary Fink, O.S.B. (1877–1904)
2. Thomas Francis Lillis (1904–1910), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Kansas City in Missouri and subsequently succeeded to that see
3. John Chamberlain Ward (1910–1929)
4. Francis Johannes (1929–1937)
5. Paul Clarence Schulte (1937–1946), appointed Archbishop of Indianapolis
6. George Joseph Donnelly (1946–1947), title changed with title of diocese

Bishops of Kansas City in Kansas[]

1. George Joseph Donnelly (1947–1950)
2. Edward Joseph Hunkeler (1951–1952), elevated to Archbishop

Archbishops of Kansas City in Kansas[]

1. Edward Joseph Hunkeler (1952–1969)
2. Ignatius Jerome Strecker (1969–1993)
3. James Patrick Keleher (1993–2005)
4. Joseph Fred Naumann (2005–present)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops[]

• James O'Reilly, appointed Bishop of Leavenworth in 1887 (because of his death, did not take effect)
• John Francis Cunningham, appointed Bishop of Concordia in 1898

High schools[]

• Bishop Miege High School, Roeland Park
• Bishop Ward High School, Kansas City
• Hayden High School, Topeka
• Immaculata High School, Leavenworth - Closed 2017
• Maur Hill – Mount Academy*, Atchison (until 2003, separate schools for boys (Maur Hill) and girls (Mount Academy))
• St. James Academy, Lenexa
• St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Overland Park

* Primary sponsorship comes from Saint Benedict's Abbey and Mount St. Scholastica Monastery.

See also[]

• Catholic Church by country
• Catholic Church hierarchy
• List of the Catholic dioceses of the United States

References[]

External links[]

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas Official Site

Coordinates: 39°07′38″N 94°52′27″W / 39.12722°N 94.87417°W / 39.12722; -94.87417