Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City

Diocese of Salt Lake City
Dioecesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi
Location
Country United States
Territory State of Utah
Metropolitan San Francisco
Statistics
Area 84,990 sq mi (220,100 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2014)
2,900,872
291,000 [1] (10%)
Parishes 48[1]
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established January 27, 1891
Cathedral Cathedral of the Madeleine
Patron saint St. Mary Magdalene
St. Joseph
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Oscar A. Solis
Metropolitan Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
Map
Website
Diocese of Salt Lake Site

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, is a Latin diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.

Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City and it is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

On January 10, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Most Rev. Oscar Azarcon Solis, then an Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, the 10th Bishop of Salt Lake City.

Statistics and extent

Cathedral of the Madeleine, looking east

As per 2014, it pastorally served 291,000 Catholics (10.0% of 2,900,872 total) on 219,887 km² in 48 parishes with 69 priests (62 diocesan, 7 religious), 75 deacons, 43 lay religious (14 brothers, 29 sisters) and 7 seminarians.[2]

It comprises the entire state of Utah.

History

In 1871 Fr. Patrick Walsh built the first Catholic Church in Utah, dedicating it to St. Mary Magdalene. Father (later Bishop) Lawrence Scanlan arrived in 1873 to become pastor. He took care of the Catholic military men, immigrant miners and railroad workers who numbered in the hundreds. Small churches, schools, an orphanage and a hospital were built, staffed by clergy and by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, to serve the growing Catholic population. As the nineteenth century came to a close, the Catholic community in Salt Lake City was rapidly outgrowing the small church of St. Mary Magdalene.

In 1887 the Church in Utah became the Apostolic Vicariate of Utah, on territory split off from its metropolitan diocese, the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Ground was broken for the new church in 1899. Construction for the Cathedral of the Madeleine would last nearly a decade, costing a small fortune for the estimated 3,000 Catholics in Utah at the turn of the century. Assistance was obtained from Catholic Mission Societies.[3]

On January 27, 1891 it was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake and on March 27, 1931 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Reno. Finally, on March 31, 1951 it was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake City.[2]

Episcopal ordinaries

The following are the lists of bishops and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their dates of service.[2]

Apostolic Vicar of Salt Lake

  1. Lawrence Scanlan (1886-1887)

Bishops of Salt Lake

  1. Lawrence Scanlan (1887-1915)
  2. Joseph Sarsfield Glass, C.M. (1915-1926)
  3. John Joseph Mitty (1926-1932), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop and later Archbishop of San Francisco
  4. James Edward Kearney (1932-1937), appointed Bishop of Rochester
  5. Duane Garrison Hunt (1937-1951)

Bishops of Salt Lake City

  1. Duane Garrison Hunt (1951-1960)
  2. Joseph Lennox Federal (1960-1980)
  3. William Kenneth Weigand (1980-1993), appointed Bishop of Sacramento
  4. George Hugh Niederauer (1994-2005), appointed Archbishop of San Francisco
  5. John Charles Wester (2007-2015), appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe
  6. Oscar Azarcon Solis (2017-present)

Coadjutor Bishop

  1. Joseph Lennox Federal (1958-1960), appointed Bishop of Salt Lake City

Auxiliary Bishops

  1. Leo John Steck (1948-1950)
  2. Joseph Lennox Federal (1951-1958), appointed Coadjutor Bishop and later Bishop of Salt Lake City

Catholic Education

The Diocese of Salt Lake City has three catholic high schools within its borders:

Cathedral

Religious Orders

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Diocese of Salt Lake City". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. 1 April 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  2. 1 2 3 http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/salt1.htm
  3. ↑ "History of the Diocese". Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City Official Site
  • GCatholic, with Google map & photo - data for most sections
  • Intermountain Catholic - newspaper of the Diocese of Salt Lake City
  • Map of the Diocese of Salt Lake City
  • Outreach programs of the Salt Lake City area ( Catholic Community Services of Utah )
  • Archdiocese of San Francisco - official site
  •  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Salt Lake". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

Coordinates: 40°45′00″N 111°52′59″W / 40.7500°N 111.8830°W / 40.7500; -111.8830

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