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The Archdiocese of Mobile (Latin: Archidiœcesis Mobiliensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in southern Alabama in the United States. It is the metropolitan see of the Province of Mobile , which includes the suffragan bishopric sees of the Diocese of Biloxi , the Diocese of Jackson , and the ...
The pastor of any particular church other than an ordinariate must be episcopally ordained, but his title conforms to that of his jurisdiction: the pastor of an archdiocese is an archbishop, the pastor of a diocese is a bishop, the pastor of an archeparchy is an archeparch, the pastor of an eparchy is an eparch, and the pastor of an exarchate is an exarch.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile is a Metropolitan Archdiocese encompassing the southern half of Alabama, USA. Subcategories.
The records and deeds for these transactions are in the archives of the Diocese of Mobile. On April 9, 1874, the first church was officially named "Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus."
Mobile's Roman Catholic parish was established on July 20, 1703, by Jean-Baptiste de la Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier, as a parish of the Diocese of Quebec. [2] It was the first Catholic parish established on the Gulf Coast of the United States. [2] The Diocese of Mobile was established in 1829, with Michael Portier appointed its first ...
The Ecclesiastical Province of Mobile comprises the states of Alabama and Mississippi. Subcategories. ... Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile (1 C, 22 P)
Pope Benedict XVI named Rodi the archbishop of Mobile on April 2, 2008, [3] replacing Bishop Oscar Lipscomb. Rodi was installed there on June 6, 2008. [1] He was the second archbishop of Mobile, a diocese raised to the dignity of an archdiocese in 1980. [8]
It served as the parish church for St. Joseph's Parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile. St. Joseph's Parish was the third oldest in Mobile. It was formed in 1857 to serve Catholics too far removed from the downtown Cathedral and the Church of St. Vincent de Paul in South Mobile.