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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 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. The Catholic Church in the United States comprises:
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 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 ...
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.
In 2020, Biden was elected the second Catholic president of the United States. First Ladies ( Jacqueline Kennedy and Melania Trump ) have been professed Catholics. Incumbent Vice President JD Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019 (making him the second Catholic to hold the post) and has acknowledged the influence of Catholic theology on his ...
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. Eastern Catholic bishops in the United States (2 C, 12 P) Roman Catholic bishops in the United States (9 C, 2 P)
This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. Roman Catholic archbishops in Puerto Rico (3 C) Lists of Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops in the United States (7 P)