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This is a historical list of all bishops of the Catholic Church whose sees were within the present-day boundaries of the United States, with links to the bishops who consecrated them. It includes only members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and their predecessors. The number references the sequence of consecration.
On October 20, 2018, she was elected Bishop of Arizona, the sixth bishop after the establishment of the diocese in 1959, and the first woman to serve in that role. She was consecrated on March 9, 2019, by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. She was seated at Trinity Cathedral on April 7, 2019. At the time of her consecration she was the youngest ...
Historic New Seminary to Open in the Diocese of Phoenix Nazareth Seminary to Keep Future Priests in Arizona to Study & Discern PHOENIX (Oct. 3, 2023) – For the first time in Arizona and in the 53-year history of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, a full seminary will open to form future priests for the 1.7 million Catholics who live in ...
The Episcopal Diocese of Arizona was established by General Convention in 1959, but its history began 100 years before. Here are some important dates: February 15, 1860: Joseph C. Talbot consecrated at Christ Church, Indianapolis to be Missionary Bishop over the newly organized Northwest jurisdiction, covering nearly 900,000 square miles (2,300,000 km 2), including Nebraska, the Dakotas ...
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The Diocese of Tucson filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September 2004, the second diocese to do so in US history. [20] Kicanas retired in 2017. Edward Weisenburger, formerly bishop of the Diocese of Salina , was named bishop of the Diocese of Tucson by Pope Francis in 2017.
The creation of a new eparchy for the western United States was proposed by the metropolitan Council of Hierarchs in 1981. The Congregation for the Oriental Churches, a dicastery of the Roman Curia responsible for the Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Holy See, recommended the erection of a new eparchy, and it was approved by Pope John Paul II.
Thomas James Olmsted (born January 21, 1947) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church.He served as bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix in Arizona from 2003 to 2022.. Olmsted previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Wichita in Kansas from 2001 to 2003.