Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City

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Diocese of Salt Lake City

Diœcesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi
Cathedral of the Madeleine - Salt Lake City.jpg
Cathedral of the Madeleine
Coat of Arms Diocese of Salt Lake City, UT.svg
Coat of arms
Location
Country United States
TerritoryState of Utah
MetropolitanSan Francisco
Statistics
Area84,990 sq mi (220,100 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics (including non-members)		(as of 2014)
2,900,872
291,000 [1] (10%)
Parishes48[1]
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
EstablishedJanuary 27, 1891
CathedralCathedral of the Madeleine
Patron saintSaint Mary Magdalene
Saint Joseph
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopOscar A. Solis
Metropolitan ArchbishopSalvatore J. Cordileone
Map
Diocese of Salt Lake City map.png
Website
dioslc.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, is a Latin diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.

Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City and it is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

On January 10, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Oscar Azarcon Solis, then an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, the 10th bishop of Salt Lake City.

Statistics and extent[]

As per 2014, it pastorally served 291,000 Catholics (10.0% of 2,900,872 total) on 219,887 km² in 48 parishes with 69 priests (62 diocesan, 7 religious), 75 deacons, 43 lay religious (14 brothers, 29 sisters) and 7 seminarians.[2]

It comprises the entire state of Utah.

History[]

In 1871 Patrick Walsh built the first Catholic Church in Utah, dedicating it to Mary Magdalene. 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.

In 1887 the Catholic Church in Utah became the Apostolic Vicariate of Utah, on territory split off from its metropolitan diocese, the Archdiocese of San Francisco. 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.[3]

On January 27, 1891 it was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake and on March 27, 1931 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Reno. Finally, on March 31, 1951 it was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake City.[2]

Bishops[]

The following includes the lists of bishops, coadjutor bishops, and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their dates of service.[2]

Apostolic Vicar of Salt Lake[]

  1. Lawrence Scanlan (1886-1887)

Bishops of Salt Lake[]

  1. Lawrence Scanlan (1887-1915)
  2. Joseph Sarsfield Glass (1915-1926)
  3. John Joseph Mitty (1926-1932), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop and later Archbishop of San Francisco
  4. James Edward Kearney (1932-1937), appointed Bishop of Rochester
  5. Duane Garrison Hunt (1937-1951)

Bishops of Salt Lake City[]

  1. Duane Garrison Hunt (1951-1960)
  2. Joseph Lennox Federal (1960-1980)
  3. William Kenneth Weigand (1980-1993), appointed Bishop of Sacramento
  4. George Hugh Niederauer (1994-2005), appointed Archbishop of San Francisco
  5. John Charles Wester (2007-2015), appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe
  6. Oscar Azarcon Solis (2017–present)

Coadjutor Bishop[]

  1. Joseph Lennox Federal (1958-1960)

Auxiliary Bishops[]

  1. Leo John Steck (1948-1950)
  2. Joseph Lennox Federal (1951-1958), appointed Coadjutor Bishop and later Bishop here

Other priest of this diocese who became Bishop[]

Catholic education[]

The Diocese of Salt Lake City has many Catholic elementary-middle schools with its borders:

As well, the diocese has three Catholic high schools within its borders:

Cathedral[]

  • Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City Utah

Religious orders[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Diocese of Salt Lake City". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. 1 April 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-19.[self-published source]
  2. ^ a b c "Diocese of Salt Lake City, USA". GCatholic.
  3. ^ "History of the Diocese". Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake. Retrieved 2013-09-19.

Sources and external links[]

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

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