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As of 2023, Hicks is the current serving bishop of Joliet in Illinois. In 2024, the Diocese announced that five Catholic churches and two Catholic schools would close in the Joliet area. [9] 19 additional parishes are under consideration to be merged or closed as of 2024. [10]
A few dioceses bear the names of two cities, variously reflecting a shift in the major center of population, e.g., the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston; future plan to divide a diocese, e.g., the former Diocese of Reno-Las Vegas; union of two former dioceses, e.g., the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph; political expedience, e.g., the ...
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Illinois (3 P) L. Lewis University (2 C, 3 P) S. University of St. Francis (2 C, 1 P)
Pages in category "Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Illinois" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Diocese of Joliet was established by Pope Pius XII on December 11, 1948. [2] St. Raymond's was chosen to be the diocese's cathedral. It was decided that the church was not adequate for cathedral functions, so plans were made for a new cathedral church. Construction began in 1952 and the present cathedral was completed in 1955 for $2.4 ...
As of June 21, 2024, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,172 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,249 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, territorial prelatures, territorial abbacies and missions sui juris ...
Ronald Aldon Hicks (born August 4, 1967) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Joliet in Illinois since 2020. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago from 2018 to 2020.
An ecclesiastical region (Latin: regio ecclesiastica) is a formally organised geographical group of dioceses, ecclesiastical provinces or parishes, without a proper Ordinary as such, in Catholic or Protestant Churches.