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The Diocese of Harrisburg (Latin: Diœcesis Harrisburgensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in south central Pennsylvania in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Philadelphia .
The Diocese of Harrisburg was established by Pope Pius IX on March 3, 1868. [4] St. Patrick's was named the pro-cathedral of the new diocese. Bishop John W. Shanahan proposed at a diocesan synod in 1902 that a permanent cathedral be built in the diocese.
1898-1904 (Third Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, present day Diocese of Bethlehem) 4th James Henry Darlington: 1905- 1930 (First Bishop of Harrisburg after diocese was created in 1904) 5th Hunter Wyatt-Brown: 1931-1943 (Second Bishop of Harrisburg) 6th J. Thomas Heistand [9] 1943-1966 (Third Bishop of Harrisburg) 7th Dean T. Stevenson
On January 24, 2014, Gainer was appointed the eleventh bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg by Pope Francis. [8] He was installed on March 19, 2014, in the Cathedral of St. Patrick in Harrisburg. As of November 2020 [update] , Gainer was serving as chair of the Cross Catholic Outreach, [ 9 ] an international charity.
The church is a part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg. Description. The Basilica was built between 1785 and 1787, ...
Roman Catholic bishops of Harrisburg (11 P) Pages in category "Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, they worked to save a faltering church near the capital dome. It failed. ... In March last year, the diocese completed a report detailing Meier’s multiple lies.
Timothy Christian Senior (born March 22, 1960) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania since 2023. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2023, as well as rector and later chancellor of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Pennsylvania.