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The Diocese of Rockford (Latin: Diœcesis Rockfordiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in Northern Illinois in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Chicago. The mother church of the Diocese of Rockford is the Cathedral of Saint Peter in the City of ...
David Malloy was born on February 3, 1956, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of David and Mary Malloy.He has one sister and four brothers. He attended Christ the King Grade School in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, then went to Wauwatosa East High School.
Greenwood Cemetery is a 100-acre (40 ha) cemetery in Rockford, Illinois. Founded in 1852, it is the largest and oldest in the city. Founded in 1852, it is the largest and oldest in the city. The Greenwood Cemetery Chapel and Crematory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Saint Michael's Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockford. The church is located in Galena, Illinois, United States, at 227 South Bench Street in Galena. The parish is named after the Archangel Michael, and is seated on a hill overlooking downtown Galena.
Loras Thomas Lane (October 19, 1910 – July 22, 1968), was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque in Iowa from 1951 to 1956 and as bishop of the Diocese of Rockford in Illinois from 1956 until his death in 1968.
The archdiocese is divided into six vicariates and 31 deaneries. An episcopal vicar administers each vicariate. The archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the province of Chicago. Its suffragan dioceses are the other Catholic dioceses in Illinois: Belleville, Joliet, Peoria, Rockford, and Springfield.
James on North Second Street in Rockford had been the pro-cathedral of the diocese from its foundation in 1908. Bishop Lane planned to construct a large pyramid-shaped cathedral, but his untimely death and the high projected construction costs doomed the project. [ 3 ]
Raymond Hillinger was born on May 2, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois, to Philip and Mary (née Neuses) Hillinger. [1] After graduating from New Trier High School in Wilmette, Illinois, he studied at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois.