Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento

Diocese of Sacramento Dioecesis Sacramentensis
The coat of arms of the diocese
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Yolo, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, El Dorado, and Amador counties in Northern California
Ecclesiastical province	San Francisco
Statistics
Area	110,325 km2 (42,597 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 3,550,864 987,727 (27.8%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin
Established	1868
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
Patron saint	Our Lady of Guadalupe, Saint Patrick
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Jaime Soto
Metropolitan Archbishop	Salvatore J. Cordileone
Auxiliary Bishops	Myron Joseph Cotta
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 mother church of the diocese, 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]

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]

Ordinaries

The lists of bishops and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their terms of service:

Bishops

1. Patrick Manogue (1886 – 1895)
2. Thomas Grace (1896 – 1921)
3. Patrick Joseph James Keane (1922 – 1928)
4. Robert John Armstrong (1929 – 1957)
5. Joseph Thomas McGucken (1957 – 1962)
6. Alden John Bell (1962 – 1979)
7. Francis Anthony Quinn (1979 – 1993)
8. William Keith Weigand (1993 – 2008)
9. Jaime Soto (2008 – present)

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]
• Myron Joseph Cotta (2014 – present)^[8]

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) ^[9]
• Loretto High School, Sacramento (closed after 2008-2009 school year)
• St. Stephen Academy, Sacramento (closed after 2008-2009 school year)

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bishops of the Diocese of Sacramento, California.

Sources

• "Diocese of Sacramento". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 2010-04-30..  Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

• "Archiocese of San Francisco". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 2010-04-30..  Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

• "Diocese of Grass Valley". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 2010-04-30..  Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

References

External links

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento Official Site

Diocese of Sacramento
Bishops	Ordinaries Patrick Manogue Thomas Grace Patrick Joseph James Keane Robert John Armstrong Joseph Thomas McGucken Alden John Bell Francis Quinn William Weigand Jaime Soto Auxiliaries Patrick Joseph James Keane John Stephen Cummins Alphonse Gallegos Richard John Garcia Myron Joseph Cotta
Churches	Cathedral Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Parishes Sacred Heart Church, Alturas Sacred Heart Church, Red Bluff Former St. Joseph's Church, Sawyers Bar
Education	Higher Education University of Sacramento 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 Grade School St. Catherine of Siena School, Vallejo Former High Schools Bishop Quinn High School, Palo Cedro Loretto High School, Sacramento St. Stephen Academy, Sacramento
Priests	Richard Higgins
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