Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati

Archdiocese of Cincinnati Archidioecesis Cincinnatensis
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Southwestern and Western Ohio, including the cities of Cincinnati, Dayton, Springfield, and Hamilton
Ecclesiastical province	Archdiocese of Cincinnati
Metropolitan	Cincinnati, Ohio
Statistics
Population - Total - Catholics	2,960,698 498,493
Parishes	214[1]
Schools	115[2]
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	June 19, 1821
Cathedral	Cathedral of Saint Peter in Chains
Patron saint	St. Francis de Sales
Current leadership
Pope	Benedict XVI
Archbishop	Dennis Marion Schnurr
Auxiliary Bishop	Joseph R. Binzer
Emeritus Bishops	Daniel Edward Pilarczyk
Map
Map of the Ecclesiastical province of Cincinnati, with the Archdiocese in pink.
Website
catholiccincinnati.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati (Latin: Archidioecesis Cincinnatensis) covers the southwest region of the U.S. state of Ohio, including the greater Cincinnati and Dayton metropolitan areas. The Archbishop of Cincinnati is Most Rev. Dennis Marion Schnurr.

Geography

St. Peter in Chains Cathedral in Downtown Cincinnati

In total, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati encompasses 230 parishes in 19 counties, as of 2005^[update], with the total membership of baptized Catholics around 500,000.^[3] The Archdiocese administers 110 associated parochial schools and diocesan elementary schools. Its mother church is the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains; located at the corner of 8th and Plum Streets in Downtown Cincinnati.

Cincinnati is the metropolis of the Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati, which encompasses the entire state of Ohio and is composed of the Archdiocese and its five suffragan dioceses: Cleveland, Columbus, Steubenville, Toledo, and Youngstown.

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati is bordered by the Diocese of Toledo to the north, the Diocese of Columbus to the south, the Diocese of Covington to the south, and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Diocese of Lafayette to the west.

History

The Diocese of Cincinnati was erected on 19 June 1821 by Pope Pius VII from territory taken from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown. At the time there was an unwritten prohibition against the building of Catholic churches in Cincinnati.^[4] The first church was therefore constructed just outside its boundaries. The diocese lost territory on 8 March 1833 when Pope Gregory XVI erected the Diocese of Detroit and again on 23 April 1847 when Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Cleveland.

On July 19, 1850, Pope Pius IX elevated the diocese to an Archdiocese. On March 3, 1868 the archdiocese lost territory when His Holiness erected the Diocese of Columbus.

In November 2003, following a sexual abuse scandal and two-year investigation by the Hamilton County prosecutor's office, Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk entered a plea of nolo contendere regarding five misdemeanor charges of failure to report allegations of child molestation.^[5] No criminal judgment was rendered on the allegations themselves, only on the diocese's failure to report the allegations.

Bishops and Archbishops

The following is a list of the Ordinaries of Cincinnati (years of service in parentheses):

1. Edward Fenwick O.P. (1822–1833) died
2. John Baptist Purcell (1833–1883) died
3. William Henry Elder (1883–1903) died
4. Henry K. Moeller (1903–1925) died
5. John Timothy McNicholas O.P. (1925–1950) died
6. Karl Joseph Alter (1950–1969) retired
7. Paul Francis Leibold (1969–1972) died
8. Joseph Bernardin (1972–1982) appointed Archbishop of Chicago, and elevated to Cardinal in 1983
9. Daniel Edward Pilarczyk (1982–2009) retired
10. Dennis Marion Schnurr (2009–present)

Auxiliary Bishops

1. Sylvester Horton Rosecrans (1861–1868) appointed Bishop of Columbus
2. William Henry Elder (Coadjutor 1880–1883) succeeded
3. Henry Moeller (Coadjutor 1903–1904) succeeded
4. Joseph H. Albers (1929–1937) appointed Bishop of Lansing
5. George John Rehring (1937–1950) appointed Bishop of Toledo
6. Paul Francis Leibold (1958–1966) appointed Bishop of Evansville
7. Edward Anthony McCarthy (1965–1969) appointed Bishop of Phoenix
8. Nicholas Thomas Elko (Archbishop ad personam 1971–1985) retired as Bishop emeritus of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian)
9. Daniel Edward Pilarczyk (1974–1982) appointed Archbishop of Cincinnati
10. James Henry Garland (1984–1992) appointed Bishop of Marquette
11. Carl Kevin Moeddel (1993–2007) retired
12. Dennis Marion Schnurr (Coadjutor 2009–2009) appointed Archbishop of Cincinnati
13. Joseph R. Binzer (2011–present)

Affiliated Bishops

The following men began their service as priests in Cincinnati before being appointed bishops elsewhere (years in parentheses refer to their years in Cincinnati):

• John Martin Henni, Archbishop of Milwaukee (1829–1843)
• Clarence George Issenmann, Bishop of Cleveland (1932–1954)
• Henry Damian Juncker, Bishop of Alton (1834–1857)
• Joshua Maria Young, Bishop of Erie (1838–1853)
• John Baptist Lamy, Archbishop of Santa Fe (1838–1850)
• James Frederick Bryan Wood, Archbishop of Philadelphia (1844–1857)
• John Henry Luers, Bishop of Fort Wayne (1846–1857)
• Caspar Henry Borgess, Bishop of Detroit (1848–1870)
• Richard Gilmour, Bishop of Cleveland (1852–1872)
• John Quinlan, Bishop of Mobile [phone])
• Augustus Maria Bernard Anthony John Gebhard Toebbe, Bishop of Covington (1854–1869)
• Henry Richter, Bishop of Grand Rapids (1865–1883)
• Francis Beckman, Archbishop of Dubuque(1902–1923)
• Urban John Vehr, Archbishop of Denver (1915–1931)
• Francis Augustine Thill, Bishop of Salina (1920–1938)
• Anthony John King Mussio, Bishop of Steubenville (1935–1945)
• John Joseph Kaising, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Ordinariate (1962–2000)
• Robert Daniel Conlon, Bishop of Steubenville (1977–2002)
• Michael William Warfel, Bishop of Juneau (1980–1996)

Schools

Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati

Name	Gender	Location	Ownership
Alter	Co-ed	Kettering	Archdiocesan[6]
Badin	Co-ed	Hamilton	Interparochial[7]
Carroll	Co-ed	Dayton	Archdiocesan[8]
Catholic Central	Co-ed	Springfield	Archdiocesan[9]
Chaminade-Julienne	Co-ed	Dayton	Marianists, Srs. of Notre Dame[10]
DePaul Cristo Rey	Co-ed	Cincinnati	Srs. of Charity[11]
Elder	Male	Cincinnati	Interparochial[12]
Fenwick	Co-ed	Middletown	Archdiocesan
La Salle	Male	Cincinnati	Archdiocesan[13]
Lehman Catholic	Co-ed	Sidney	Archdiocesan[14]
McAuley	Female	Cincinnati	Interparochial[15]
McNicholas	Co-ed	Cincinnati	Interparochial[16]
Moeller	Male	Kenwood	Interparochial
Mother of Mercy	Female	Cincinnati	Interparochial[17]
Mount Notre Dame	Female	Reading	Interparochial[18]
Purcell Marian	Co-ed	Cincinnati	Archdiocesan[13]
Roger Bacon	Co-ed	St. Bernard	Interparochial[13]
Seton	Female	Cincinnati	Parochial
St. Rita	Co-ed	Evendale	Independent[19]
St. Ursula	Female	Cincinnati	Archdiocesan
St. Xavier	Male	Finneytown	Jesuit
Summit Country Day	Co-ed	Cincinnati	Independent
Ursuline	Female	Blue Ash	Independent[20]

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati operates a large school system that is especially well-attended in the Cincinnati area. As of 2011, 43,641 students^[1] enroll in the Archdiocese's 115 schools (ACE Consulting 2011, p. 36),^[2] making it the eighth largest Catholic school system in the United States.^[21] In Hamilton County, where most private schools are run by the Archdiocese, nearly a quarter of students (36,684 as of 2007) attend private schools, a rate only second to St. Louis County, Missouri.^[22]

The 23 Catholic high schools in the region operate under varying degrees of archdiocesan control. Several are owned and operated by the Archdiocese, while other interparochial schools are run by groups of parishes under archdiocesan supervision. Most of the interparochial and non-archdiocesan high schools are operated by religious orders (as noted in the table to the right).^[19] Most of the schools's athletic teams belong to the Greater Catholic League and/or Girls Greater Cincinnati League.

The Archdiocese also includes 92 parochial and diocesan elementary schools, with a combined enrollment of 30,312, as of 2011 (ACE Consulting 2011, p. 91). These schools can be found in the urban and suburban areas of Cincinnati and Dayton, as well as some of the smaller towns within the Archdiocesan boundaries. Each parochial school is owned and operated by its parish, rather than by the Archdiocese's Catholic Schools Office. However, in March 2011, the Archdiocese announced its intention of eventually unifying the schools under one school system.^[23] The current Superintendent of Catholic Schools is Dr. Jim Rigg.

Five of the high schools are named after former archbishops of the diocese. A parochial elementary school in Dayton is also named after Archbishop Liebold.

The Archdiocese sponsors the Athenaeum of Ohio – Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West seminary in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati.

Media

Newspapers

The Archdiocese is served by The Catholic Telegraph, the diocesan newspaper, which is described on its website as the United States' oldest continuously published Catholic diocesan newspaper. Its defunct sister newspaper, Der Wahrheitsfreund, was the first German Catholic newspaper in the country.

Radio stations

Several area Catholic radio stations, owned by separate entities, serve the Archdiocese:

• WNOP 740 AM Licensed to Newport, Kentucky. "Sacred Heart Radio" plus a sister station
• WHSS 89.5 FM in Hamilton, a repeater of WNOP.
• WULM 1600 AM located in Springfield "Radio Maria" (based at KJMJ in Alexandria, Louisiana)serving portions of the Dayton area...a fifty mile radius in the daytime. (ten mile radius at night)plus a sister station:
• WHJM 88.7 FM licensed in Anna, transmitting from Botkins with a live studio located in nearby Minster which serves a forty mile radius within the Upper Miami Valley and southern portions of the Lima area.Radio Maria also streams on the internet

Other stations reach into portions of the Archdiocese:

• WVKO 1580 AM located in Columbus "St. Gabriel Radio" which reaches into eastern Logan, Champaign and Clark Counties in the northeastern corner of the Archdiocese during daylight hours plus an audio stream. St. Gabriel Radio has purchased the current WOSU (AM) 820 kHz in Columbus which plans to move to that frequency by 2012 pending FCC approval.
• WLYV 1450 AM in Fort Wayne Indiana "Redeemer Radio" which can be heard in portions of Mercer and Darke Counties in the northwestern corner of the Archdiocese during daylight hours plus an audio stream.

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Amos, Denise Smith (2011-10-05). "Catholic leaders to share assessment of schools". The Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett Company). http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20111004/NEWS0102/110050333/Catholic-leaders-share-assessment-schools. Retrieved 2011-10-28. "Schools: 113 schools with 43,641 students enrolled last year. Cincinnati region includes 17 high schools, 66 elementary schools and one K-12 specialty school." 
2. ^ ^{a b} ACE Consulting counts 114 schools, which includes Catholic Central School's two campuses but not DePaul Cristo Rey High School, which opened shortly before publication.
3. ^ http://www.catholiccincinnati.org/
4. ^ "Cincinnati: a Guide to the Queen City and its neighbors", Federal Writer's Project
5. ^ Coday, Denis (2003-12-12). "Cincinnati archdiocese convicted for failing to report sex abuse". National Catholic Reporter (The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company). http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2003d/121203/121203i.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-23. 
6. ^ Manning, Jim. "About Us". Archbishop Alter High School. http://www.alterhighschool.org/page.cfm?p=2. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
7. ^ "About Us". Stephen T. Badin High School. http://www.badinhs.org/parentlife/for_parents_about_us.asp. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
8. ^ Karl, J.. "Welcome from the Dean". Carroll High School. http://www.carrollhs.org/s/1253/index.aspx?pgid=547. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
9. ^ "Please Support our Mission". Catholic Central School. http://www.ccirish.org/page.aspx?pid=263. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
10. ^ "Society of Mary". Chaminade-Julienne High School. http://cjeagles.org/society-mary/society-mary. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
11. ^ Bessette, Jeanne, OSF. "Welcome from the President". DePaul Cristo Rey High School. http://www.depaulcristorey.org/page.cfm?p=355. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
12. ^ (PDF) Elder High School Student Handbook 2010–2011. Elder High School. 2010-09-23. p. i. http://www.elderhs.org/student_handbook_2010-2011.pdf. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
13. ^ ^{a b c} "They Are Not All The Same" (PDF). Reunion (Roger Bacon High School) 38 (3): 11. Spring 2005. http://www.rogerbacon.org/rbnew/file_download/13. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
14. ^ "Director of Development" (PDF). Lehman Catholic High School. http://www.lehmancatholic.com/attachments/Job-Posting-DD.pdf. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
15. ^ (PDF) McAuley High School Handbook and Calendar For Parents and Students. McAuley High School. 2010. p. 8. http://www.mcauleyhs.net/s/537/images/editor_documents/Handbook%202010-2011.pdf. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
16. ^ (PDF) Student Planner and Handbook. Archbishop McNicholas High School. 2010. p. 3. http://www.mcnhs.org/documents/Studenthandbook10-11.pdf. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
17. ^ "History of Mother of Mercy High School". Mother of Mercy High School. http://www.motherofmercy.org/s/746/indexNomt.aspx?pgid=272. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
18. ^ "Basic Information". Mount Notre Dame High School. 2005. http://www.mndhs.org/Default.aspx?tabid=66. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
19. ^ ^{a b} Amos, Denise Smith (2011-03-11). "Q&A with James Rigg, superintendent of schools". The Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett Company). http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110310/NEWS0102/103110359/1058/NEWS0102/Questions-surround-Archdiocese-schools-plan. Retrieved 2011-03-18. "'With the exception of St. Rita School for the Deaf, which is controlled by an independent board, there are three kinds of Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati...'" 
20. ^ "Development Staff". Ursuline Academy. http://www.ursulineacademy.org/page.cfm?p=475. Retrieved 2011-03-18. 
21. ^ Amos, Denise Smith (2011-10-07). "Catholic schools seek to add pupils". The Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett Company). http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20111006/NEWS0102/110070364/Catholic-schools-seek-add-pupils. Retrieved 2011-10-28. "Even so, Cincinnati's archdiocese still boasts the nation's eighth largest Catholic school system, with more than 43,600 students." 
22. ^ Alltucker, Ken (2002-10-20). "Tristaters put stock in private schools". The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, Ohio: Gannett Company): p. A1. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/10/20/loc_privschool20coming.html. Retrieved 2007-10-21. 
23. ^ Amos, Denise Smith (2011-03-10). "Archdiocese moves to unify 113 schools". The Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett Company). http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20110309/NEWS0102/103100332/. Retrieved 2011-03-18. "The Cincinnati Archdiocese has for the first time in its 189-year history taken steps to unify its system of Catholic schools under one vision and operation, archdiocesan leaders said Wednesday." 

References

• "Initial Assessment Report" (PDF). Lighting the Way: A Vision for Catholic School Education for Catholic Schools. ACE Consulting, University of Notre Dame. 2011-09-13. http://www.catholiccincinnati.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/CN_Final%20Report_Public_092311.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-28. 

External links

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati Official Webpage

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