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Territory Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Yolo, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, El Dorado, and Amador counties in Northern California Area 110,325 km (42,597 sq mi) Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2014)3,550,864987,727 (27.8%) Profiles | ||
Roman catholic diocese of sacramento 2013 annual catholic appeal
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento is an ecclesiastical territory or particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. It comprises the counties of Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Yolo, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, El Dorado, and Amador, and is headquartered in Sacramento, California. Also known as the See of Sacramento, it is led by a bishop who pastors the mother church of the diocese, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. Originally a major part of the defunct Grass Valley Diocese (which included several counties in northern California and Nevada), Pope Leo XIII established the present-day diocese on May 28, 1886.
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- Roman catholic diocese of sacramento 2013 annual catholic appeal
- Roman catholic diocese of sacramento annual catholic appeal 2012
- Demographics
- Ordinaries
- Bishops
- Auxiliary Bishops
- High schools
- Closed high schools
- References
Today, the See of Sacramento remains a ceremonial suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Its fellow suffragans include the Dioceses of Honolulu, Las Vegas, Oakland, Reno, Salt Lake City, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Stockton.
The current Bishop of Sacramento is Jaime Soto who was named coadjutor in October 2007 and succeeded Bishop William Weigand on Sunday November 30, 2008.
Roman catholic diocese of sacramento annual catholic appeal 2012
Demographics
Weekly mass count was about 136,500 in 2009. There were an estimated 800,000 Catholics in the area that did not attend mass regularly.
Ordinaries
The lists of bishops and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their terms of service:
Bishops
- Patrick Manogue (1886 – 1895)
- Thomas Grace (1896 – 1921)
- Patrick Joseph James Keane (1922 – 1928)
- Robert John Armstrong (1929 – 1957)
- Joseph Thomas McGucken (1957 – 1962)
- Alden John Bell (1962 – 1979)
- Francis Anthony Quinn (1979 – 1993)
- William Keith Weigand (1993 – 2008)
- Jaime Soto (2008 – present)