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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 .
Hierarchy of the Catholic Church; List of bishops and prince-bishops of Liège; List of Catholic archdioceses (by country and continent) List of Catholic bishops in the Philippines; List of Catholic bishops in the United States; List of Catholic bishops of India; List of Catholic dioceses (alphabetical) (including archdioceses) (in the world)
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
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States.Founded in 2001 after the merger of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (USCC), the USCCB is a registered corporation based in Washington, D.C.
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, [10] [11] 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.
Early next month, the Vatican will open an unprecedented gathering of Catholic clergy and laypeople from around the world. The synod is intended to be a collegial, collaborative event, though the ...
American Roman Catholic titular archbishops (3 C) Pages in category "American Roman Catholic archbishops" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.