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The Diocese of Kalamazoo consists of 46 parishes and 13 missions, with 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The diocese operates three high schools, two middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students. The diocese also has two parish-run preschools.
Pope Francis appointed Lohse bishop of Kalamazoo on May 23, 2023. [9] [10] [11] He was consecrated a bishop by Archbishop Allen Vigneron on July 25, 2023, with Bishops Paul J. Bradley and Lawrence T. Persico serving as co-consecrators. [12] [13] In June 2024 Lohse was named administrator of the Diocese of Steubenville. [14]
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]
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.
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.
More than 50 clergy — including 48 priests — in a Michigan diocese have been accused of sexual abuse dating back to the 1950s, according to a disturbing report by the state’s top prosecutor.
A Catholic priest has resigned as pastor of a church in a small central Michigan community, the result of weeks of controversy following his publicly expressed regret that a gay author had read a ...
Paul Donovan was born on September 1, 1924, in Bernard, Iowa. [1] His family later move to Lansing, Michigan, where he entered St. Mary's Cathedral High School.. Having decided to become a priest, Donovan began his priestly studies in 1941 at St. Joseph Seminary.