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Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento

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Country
  
United States

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Phone
  
+1 916-733-0100

Ecclesiastical province
  
San Francisco

Bishop
  
Jaime Soto

Patron saints
  
Mary, Saint Patrick

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento

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) 3,550,864 987,727 (27.8%)

Address
  
2110 Broadway, Sacramento, CA 95818, USA

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament

Profiles

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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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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.

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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

  1. Patrick Manogue (1886 – 1895)
  2. Thomas Grace (1896 – 1921)
  3. Patrick Joseph James Keane (1922 – 1928)
  4. Robert John Armstrong (1929 – 1957)
  5. Joseph Thomas McGucken (1957 – 1962)
  6. Alden John Bell (1962 – 1979)
  7. Francis Anthony Quinn (1979 – 1993)
  8. William Keith Weigand (1993 – 2008)
  9. Jaime Soto (2008 – present)

Auxiliary Bishops

  • Patrick Joseph James Keane (1920 – 1922)
  • John Stephen Cummins (1974 – 1977)
  • Alphonse Gallegos (1981 – 1991)
  • Richard John Garcia (1997 – 2006)
  • Myron Joseph Cotta (2014 – present)
  • High schools

  • Christian Brothers High School, Sacramento
  • Cristo Rey High School, Sacramento
  • Jesuit High School, Carmichael
  • Mercy High School, Red Bluff
  • St. Francis High School, Sacramento
  • St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School, Vallejo
  • Closed high schools

  • Bishop Manogue High School, Sacramento (Closed after 1992-1993 school year). Merged with Christian Brothers High School to create a coed campus.
  • Bishop Quinn High School, Palo Cedro (closed after 2007-2008 school year)
  • Loretto High School, Sacramento (closed after 2008-2009 school year)
  • St. Stephen Academy, Sacramento (closed after 2008-2009 school year)
  • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento Wikipedia