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The Diocesan Curia is a group of people who assist the Eparch in governing the Syro Malabar Eparchy of St. Thomas of Chicago. The following Members are Members of the Curia [ 12 ] Eparch: Joy Alappatt , Bishop Joy was ordained in 1981 and served as the Catherdal Rector then Auxiliary Bishop before becoming the Eparch.
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. The archdiocese covers Cook and Lake Counties and is organized for administrative purposes into six vicariates as follows: Vicariate I: Lake County and northern Cook County (including Des Plaines, Mount Prospect, Schaumburg, and Waukegan)
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago is the largest in a nationwide network of faith-based social service providers that form Catholic Charities. Together they form the largest private network of social service providers in the United States. More than 1,400 agencies, institutions, and organizations make up the Catholic Charities ...
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in Vicariate I of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Vicariate I covers Lake County, Illinois, and portions of northern Cook County. It includes the communities of Des Plaines, Elk Grove Village, Lake Forest, Mount Prospect, Mundelein, Schaumburg, and Waukegan.
The cathedral parish for the archdiocese, Holy Name Cathedral, is in the Near North Side area of Chicago. The archdiocese serves over 2 million Catholics in Cook and Lake counties, an area of 1,411 square miles (3,650 km 2). The archdiocese is divided into six vicariates and 31 deaneries. An episcopal vicar administers each vicariate.
The Diocese of Springfield in Illinois is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Chicago. [2] On April 20, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI named Thomas J. Paprocki as the ninth bishop of Springfield in Illinois. [3]
The jurisdiction over northern Illinois shifted in 1834 to the Diocese of St. Louis. [7] The first Catholic mass in Elgin was conducted by two French missionaries in 1837. [8] With the creation of the Diocese of Chicago in 1843, northern Illinois was transferred from the Diocese of St. Louis. The Rockford area would be part of the Diocese of ...
The Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches in North America and Central America comprise 14 episcopal conferences, which together include 100 ecclesiastical provinces, each of which is headed by a metropolitan archbishop.