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The Diocese of Kalamazoo (Latin: Dioecesis Kalamazuensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in southwestern Michigan in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Detroit .
Diocese of Kalamazoo in red. This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo.The diocese is located in the southwestern portion of Michigan's lower peninsula and includes more than 55 churches in the cities of Battle Creek and Kalamazoo and the counties of Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry.
The pastor of any particular church other than an ordinariate must be episcopally ordained, but his title conforms to that of his jurisdiction: the pastor of an archdiocese is an archbishop, the pastor of a diocese is a bishop, the pastor of an archeparchy is an archeparch, the pastor of an eparchy is an eparch, and the pastor of an exarchate is an exarch.
Pages in category "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
On April 6, 2009, Bradley was named the bishop of the Diocese of Kalamazoo. [8] Succeeding the retiring Bishop James Albert Murray, Bradley was installed at St. Augustine Cathedral in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on June 5, 2009. As bishop, he served over 107,000 Catholics in Southwestern Michigan. [9]
On November 18, 1997, Murray was appointed as the third bishop of the Diocese of Kalamazoo by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on January 27, 1998, from Cardinal Adam Maida, with Bishops Paul Donovan and Carl Mengeling serving as co-consecrators, in St. Augustine Cathedral in Kalamazoo.
Following studies at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, he was ordained to the diaconate in December 1909 and to the priesthood in December 1910. [1] He was a veteran of World War I. Ivins graduated from Valparaiso University in 1913, and received his master's degree from University of Wisconsin in 1918. Ivins practiced law briefly in ...
Pius XI in 1938 elevated the Diocese of Detroit to the Archdiocese of Detroit and appointed Bishop Edward Mooney from the Diocese of Rochester as its first archbishop. [11] At the same time, the Vatican erected the Diocese of Saginaw, taking territory in northeastern Michigan from the Archdiocese of Detroit and the Diocese of Grand Rapids.