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Diocese of Sacramento
Dioecesis Sacramentensis
The coat of arms of the dioceseLocation Territory Region XI, United States Ecclesiastical province San Francisco Metropolitan Sacramento, California Statistics Population
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1 millionInformation Denomination Roman Catholic Rite Latin Established 1868 Cathedral Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Patron saint Our Lady of Guadalupe, Saint Patrick Current leadership Pope Pope Benedict XVI Bishop Jamie Soto Metropolitan Archbishop George Hugh Niederauer Map 
Website diocese-sacramento.org 
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Sacramento
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento is an ecclesiastical territory or particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. It comprises the counties of Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Yolo, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, El Dorado, and Amador, and is headquartered in Sacramento, California. Also known as the See of Sacramento, it is led by a bishop who pastors the motherchurch, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. Originally a major part of the defunct Grass Valley Diocese (which included several counties in northern California and Nevada), Pope Leo XIII established the present-day diocese on May 28, 1886.
Today, the See of Sacramento remains a ceremonial suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Its fellow suffragans include the Dioceses of Honolulu, Las Vegas, Oakland, Reno, Salt Lake City, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Stockton.
The current Bishop of Sacramento is Jaime Soto who was named coadjutor in October 2007 and succeeded Bishop William Weigand on Sunday November 30, 2008. [1]
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Demographics
Weekly mass count was about 136,500 in 2009. There were an estimated 800,000 Catholics in the area that did not attend mass regularly.[2]
Bishops
- Patrick Manogue (1886 – 1895)
- Thomas Grace (1896 – 1921)
- Patrick Joseph James Keane (1922 – 1928)
- Robert John Armstrong (1929 – 1957)
- Joseph Thomas McGucken (1957 – 1962)
- Alden John Bell (1962 – 1979)
- Francis Anthony Quinn (1979 – 1993)
- William Keith Weigand (1993 – 2008)
- Jaime Soto (2008 – present[update])
Auxiliary Bishops
- Patrick Joseph James Keane (1920 – 1922)[3][4]
- John Stephen Cummins (1974 – 1977)[5]
- Alphonse Gallegos (1981 – 1991) [6]
- Richard John Garcia (1997 – 2006)[7]
High schools
- Christian Brothers High School, Sacramento
- Cristo Rey High School, Sacramento
- Jesuit High School, Carmichael
- Mercy High School, Red Bluff
- St. Francis High School, Sacramento
- St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School, Vallejo
Closed high schools
- Bishop Manogue High School, Sacramento (Closed after 1992-1993 school year). Merged with Christian Brothers High School to create a coed campus.
- Bishop Quinn High School, Palo Cedro (closed after 2007-2008 school year) [8]
- Loretto High School, Sacramento (closed after 2008-2009 school year)
- St. Stephen Academy, Sacramento (closed after 2008-2009 school year)
Sources
- Diocese of Sacramento at Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved on 2010-04-30..
- Archiocese of San Francisco at Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved on 2010-04-30..
- Diocese of Grass Valley at Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved on 2010-04-30..
References
- ^ http://www.diocese-sacramento.org/Home_news/Transfer_of_crozier_thanksgiving_Mass_113008.html
- ^ "California Catholics try to woo churchgoers". Burlington, Vermont: Burlington Free Press. 26 August 2009. pp. 2A.
- ^ http://www.diocese-sacramento.org/diocese/lineage_bishops.html#keane
- ^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgracet.html
- ^ http://www.diocese-sacramento.org/diocese/lineage_bishops.html#bell
- ^ http://www.diocese-sacramento.org/diocese/lineage_bishops.html#quinn
- ^ http://www.diocese-sacramento.org/diocese/lineage_bishops.html#weigand
- ^ http://www.redding.com/news/2008/Mar/31/bishop-quinn-high-school-close/
External links
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