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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. The Catholic Church in the United States comprises:
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
Catholic Church hierarchy; 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)
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.
Bishops are collectively known as the College of Bishops and can hold such additional titles as archbishop, cardinal, patriarch, or pope. As of 2020, there were approximately 5,600 living bishops total in the Latin and Eastern churches of the Catholic Church. [8] Bishops are always men. [9]
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 ...
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)
United States portal; ... out of 50 total. A. Roman Catholic bishops in Alabama (1 C, 1 P) Roman Catholic bishops in ... Roman Catholic bishops in New York (state) ...