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The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States. The list also includes bishops in American territories and commonwealths, including Puerto Rico , the Northern Mariana Islands , American Samoa , Guam , and the U.S. Virgin Islands .
There are 428 active and retired Catholic bishops in the United States: Cardinals and bishops processing through St. Peter's Basilica in November 2014 [85] 255 active bishops: 36 archbishops; 144 diocesan bishops; 67 auxiliary bishops; 8 apostolic or diocesan administrators; 173 retired bishops: 33 retired archbishops; 95 retired diocesan bishops
Roman Catholic bishops in the United States by diocese (147 C) Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in the United States (7 P) Roman Catholic bishops in Washington, D.C. (1 C, 5 P)
The College of Cardinals is divided into three orders, with formal precedence in the following sequence: [1]. Cardinal bishops (CB): the six cardinals who are assigned the titles of the seven suburbicarian dioceses in the vicinity of Rome by the pope, [a] plus a few other cardinals who have been exceptionally co-opted into the order, [9] [10] as well as patriarchs who head one of the Eastern ...
James Gibbons (109) became the United States' second cardinal in 1886. Jean-Baptiste Salpointe (116) served as vicar apostolic of the Arizona missions, and later as Archbishop of Santa Fe. James Augustine Healy (138) was the first bishop of African descent in the United States.
Pastor Fr. Alex Chávez gave a tour to Vida en el Valle on Aug. 4 of the construction progress of the $21 million St. Charles Borromeo Church, the US’s largest Catholic parish opening in Visalia.
Roman Catholic bishops of San Juan de Puerto Rico (2 C, 4 P) Roman Catholic bishops of Santa Rosa in California (6 P) Roman Catholic bishops of Savannah, Georgia (14 P)
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was more businesslike in explaining the essentials of how and where the blessings could be bestowed, and that Catholic teaching on marriage and ...