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The Archdiocese of San Francisco (Latin: Archdiœcesis Sancti Francisci; Spanish: Arquidiócesis de San Francisco) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States.
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. The archdiocese includes the City and County of San Francisco and the Counties of Marin and San Mateo. [1] The mother church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, completed in 1971. It ...
It is the mother church of the Catholic faithful in the California counties of Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo and is the metropolitan cathedral for the Ecclesiastical province of San Francisco. The cathedral is located in the Cathedral Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. The present cathedral replaced one (1891–1962) of the same name.
STPSU was founded in 1898 by San Francisco Archbishop Patrick William Riordan with a faculty from the Sulpician order. In over 100 years, it has formed more than 2,000 priests. STPSU is governed by the Archdiocese of San Francisco in association with its other sponsoring dioceses.
Shortly after the conclusion of the council, Alemany resigned on December 21, 1884, and Riordan succeeded him as the second Archbishop of San Francisco. [12] In 1884, Riordan's first full year in San Francisco, the Archdiocese contained 175 priests, 128 churches, and 25 chapels and stations to serve a Catholic population of 200,000. [21]
St. Anne of the Sunset Church in San Francisco; St. Dominic's Catholic Church (San Francisco) Saint Ignatius Church (San Francisco) St. Ignatius College Preparatory; St. Joseph's College (Santa Clara County, California) Saint Patrick's Seminary and University; St. Paul's Catholic Church (San Francisco) Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption ...
The Mission San Francisco de Asís (Spanish: Misión San Francisco de Asís), also known as Mission Dolores, is a historic Catholic church complex in San Francisco, California. Operated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the complex was founded in the 18th century by Spanish Catholic missionaries. The mission contains two historic buildings:
On July 6, 2010, McElroy was appointed an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and titular bishop of Gemellae in Byzacena by Pope Benedict XVI. On September 7, 2010, McElroy received his episcopal consecration from Archbishop George Niederauer , with Archbishop Emeritus Quinn and Bishop John Wester serving as co-consecrators ...