Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton

Diocese of Stockton Dioecesis Stocktoniensis
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Counties of Alpine, Calaveras, Mono, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tuolumne
Ecclesiastical province	Province of San Francisco
Metropolitan	Stockton, California
Population - Catholics	207,493
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	July 29, 1853
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Annunciation
Current leadership
Pope	Benedict XVI
Bishop	Stephen Blaire Bishop of Stockton
Metropolitan Archbishop	George Hugh Niederauer Archbishop of San Francisco
Map
Website
stocktondiocese.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Central Valley and Mother Lode region of California in the United States. It comprises the Counties of Alpine, Calaveras, Mono, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tuolumne. Also known as the See of Stockton, it is led by a bishop which pastors the following churches, the Cathedral of the Annunciation, Church of the Presentation in Stockton, California.

Originally a part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Sacramento, the present-day diocese was established in 1962. It has one of the largest Asian and Pacific Islander populations (with Asians being mostly Filipino Americans) of the American Catholic dioceses.

Today, the See of Stockton remains a suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of San Francisco. Its fellow suffragans include the Dioceses of Honolulu, Las Vegas, Oakland, Reno, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Jose, Santa Rosa.

History

• Hugh Aloysius Donohoe (1962–1969)
• Merlin Guilfoyle (1969–1979)
• Roger Mahony (1980–1985)
• Donald Montrose (1985–1999)
• Stephen Blaire (1999 - )

In 1998 a jury awarded two brothers $30 million in a judgement against the Diocese of Stockton over its handling of a priest who abused the men while they were boys, allegedly starting when they were three.

At the trial it was revealed that in a 1976 letter to his superiors O'Grady, the abusive priest, had admitted to sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl. In 1984 an attorney for the diocese promised to get O'Grady away from children, a promise recorded in a police report. O'Grady abused the boys who latter brought the suit from 1978-1991. In 1993 he pled guilty to abusing them and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.^[1]

During the O'Grady trial Mahony claimed that O'Grady was the only accused priest he dealt with in Stockton. Later in 2004 Mahony admitted under oath that parents had confronted him with accusations against another priest in the diocese, Antonio Munoz.^[2]

Parishes

• Cathedral of the Annunciation (Stockton)
• Church of the Presentation (Stockton)
• All Saints (Twain Harte)
• All Saints Newman Community (CSUS and MJC, Turlock)
• Holy Cross (Linden)
• Holy Family Parish (Modesto)
• Our Lady of Fatima (Modesto)
• Our Lady Of Guadalupe (Lathrop)
• Our Lady of the Assumption of the Portuguese (Turlock)
• Sacred Heart (Patterson)
• Sacred Heart (Turlock)
• St. Andrew (San Andreas)
• St. Anne (Lodi)
• St. Anthony of Padua (Manteca)
• St. Anthony (Hughson)
• St. Bernadette (Stockton)
• St. Bernard (Tracy)
• St. Edward (Stockton)
• St. Frances of Rome (Riverbank)
• St. George (Stockton)
• St. Gertrude (Stockton)
• St. Joachim (Lockeford)
• St. Joachim (Newman)
• St. Joseph (Modesto)
• St. Joseph (Mammoth Lakes)
• St. Jude (Ceres)
• St. Linus (Stockton)
• St. Luke (Stockton)
• St. Mary of the Annunciation (Oakdale)
• St. Mary of the Assumption (Stockton)
• St. Michael (Stockton)
• St. Patrick (Angels Camp)
• St. Patrick (Ripon)
• St. Patrick (Sonora)
• St. Stanislaus (Modesto)

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High schools

• St. Mary's High School, Stockton
• Central Catholic High School, Modesto

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Elementary/Junior High schools

• Annunciation School, Stockton
• Presentation Catholic School, Stockton
• Our Lady of Fatima School, Modesto
• Sacred Heart School, Patterson
• Sacred Heart School, Turlock
• St. Anne School, Lodi
• St. Anthony School, Manteca
• St. Bernard School, Tracy
• St. George School, Stockton
• St. Luke School, Stockton
• St. Stanislaus School, Modesto

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Active Ministries, Movements, and Orders

• Communion and Liberation (meetings held at St. Luke's Catholic Church)
• Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, California (St. Joseph's Medical Center, Stockton)
• Legion of Mary (active at numerous parishes)
• Newman Center (University of the Pacific / San Joaquin Delta College, Stanislaus State University)
• Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (St. Mary's High School, Stockton)
• Religious of the Cross of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

References

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton
• Communion and Liberation, United States
• Communion and Liberation Stockton School of Community
• Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, California
• Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, Toledo-Detroit Province

1. ^ reprent of San Francisco Chronicle July 16, 1998 article in bishopaccountability.org
2. ^ Bishopaccountability database on accusations against priests connected with the Stockton diocese
3. ^ "Diocese of Stockton Alphabetical Directory". http://www.stocktondiocese.org/english/parishes/index.html. Retrieved 2008-01-01. 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Diocese of Stockton School Directory". http://www.stocktondiocese.org/english/education/schools/schooldirectory.asp. Retrieved 2008-01-02.