Roman Catholic Diocese of Evansville

Diocese of Evansville Dioecesis Evansvicensis
St. Benedict's Cathedral
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Southwestern Indiana & Lower Wabash Valley
Ecclesiastical province	Indianapolis
Metropolitan	Evansville, Indiana
Population - Catholics	88,000 (across 12 counties)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	October 21, 1944
Cathedral	St. Benedict Cathedral, Evansville, Indiana
Patron saint	Saint Peter, Saint Paul
Current leadership
Pope	Benedict XVI
Bishop	Charles C. Thompson
Metropolitan Archbishop	Daniel Buechlein, OSB
Emeritus Bishops	Gerald Gettelfinger
Map
Map of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Evansville with all of its schools

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Evansville (Latin: Dioecesis Evansvicensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Southwestern Indiana. It was founded on October 21, 1944.

The diocese includes the entirety of the eleven southwestern Indiana counties of Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Martin, Pike, Posey, Sullivan, Vanderburgh, and Warrick, as well as eight of the nine townships in Spencer County. The remaining township, Harrison, is within the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. This is because of the St. Meinrad Archabbey.

The diocese has sixty-nine parishes and two chapels in seven deaneries.^[1]

Diocesan Bishops

1. Henry Joseph Grimmelsmann (1944–1965)
2. Paul Francis Leibold (1966–1969)
3. Francis Raymond Shea (1969–1989)
4. Gerald Andrew Gettelfinger (1989–2011)
5. Charles C. Thompson (2011—)

Deaneries

Evansville East

• Vanderburgh County

Evansville West

• Vanderburgh County
• Posey County

Jasper

• Dubois County

Newburgh

• Spencer County
• Warrick County

Princeton

• Gibson County

Vincennes

• Greene County
• Knox County
• Sullivan County

Washington

• Daviess County
• Martin County
• Pike County

Education

High Schools

The following high schools are administered by the diocese:

• Mater Dei High School, Evansville
• Reitz Memorial High School, Evansville
• John Paul the Great High School, Jasper
• Rivet High School, Vincennes
• Washington Catholic High School, Washington

Footnotes

1. ^ [1] retrieved February 12, 2009

External links

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Evansville Home Page