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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 .
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.
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
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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), it is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic hierarchy (i.e., diocesan, coadjutor, and auxiliary bishops and the ...
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 ...
The Catholic Church in the United States has a total of 197 particular churches in the 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands: 33 territorial archdioceses, 144 territorial dioceses, the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (serving members of the US Armed Forces and Diplomatic Corps, and those in facilities of the ...
Presidents of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (19 P) This page was last edited on 15 November 2023, at 22:37 (UTC). Text ...