Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina (Latin: Dioecesis Salinensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church covering thirty-one counties in Kansas. The episcopal see is in Salina, Kansas. It was founded as the Diocese of Concordia on August 2, 1887, and on December 23, 1944, was renamed Diocese of Salina.[2]

Diocese of Salina

Dioecesis Salinensis
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Location
Country United States
Territory 31 counties in north-central and northwest Kansas
Ecclesiastical provinceKansas City in Kansas
Statistics
Area26,685 sq mi (69,110 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2010)
342,000
46,671 (14.1%)
Parishes86
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
EstablishedAugust 2, 1887 as the Diocese of Concordia; December 23, 1944 as the Diocese of Salina
CathedralSacred Heart Cathedral
Patron saintOur Lady of Perpetual Help
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopGerald Lee Vincke[1]
Metropolitan ArchbishopJoseph Fred Naumann
Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas
Map
Website
salinadiocese.org

On Wednesday, June 13, 2018, Pope Francis named Monsignor Gerald Lee Vincke, a priest of the Diocese of Lansing (based in Lansing, Michigan), who until then had been the parish priest (pastor) of the Holy Family Parish, in Grand Blanc, Michigan, as the Bishop of the Diocese of Salina, to succeed Bishop Edward Weisenburger. He was installed as bishop on August 22, 2018.[3]

On September 28, 2018, the Archdiocese of Washington announced that disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick would reside at the Basilica of St. Fidelis in Victoria, Kansas.[4] Vincke agreed to the arrangement despite acknowledging it would be "offensive and hurtful to many people."[5] In January 2020, it was announced that McCarrick, by then laicized, had moved from there to an undisclosed location.

Diocesan bishops

Bishopa of Concordia
  1. Richard Scannell (1887–1891), appointed Bishop of Omaha
  2. Thaddeus J. Butler (1897) (died before consecration)[6]
  3. John F. Cunningham (1898–1919)
  4. Francis Joseph Tief (1920–1938)

Bishops of Salina
  1. Francis Augustine Thill (1938-1957) (see change was in 1944)
  2. Frederick William Freking (1957-1964), appointed Bishop of La Crosse
  3. Cyril John Vogel (1965-1979)
  4. Daniel Kucera, OSB (1980-1983), appointed Archbishop of Dubuque
  5. George Kinzie Fitzsimons (1984-2004)
  6. Paul Stagg Coakley (2004-2010), appointed Archbishop of Oklahoma City
  7. Edward Joseph Weisenburger (2012–2017), appointed Bishop of Tucson
  8. Gerald Lee Vincke (2018–present)

High schools

Ecclesiastical province
See: List of the Catholic bishops of the United States#Province of Kansas City

See also

References
  1. "Pope Francis Names Rev. Msgr. Gerald L. Vincke as Bishop of Salina". usccb.org.
  2. "Diocese of Salina". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  3. "Rinunce e nomine". press.vatican.va.
  4. "Statement on Archbishop Theodore McCarrick's Residence - Archdiocese of Washington". Archdiocese of Washington. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  5. "Catholic Diocese of Salina". salinadiocese.org. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  6. http://salinadiocese.org/home/about-us/history

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