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In 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Armando Xavier Ochoa of the Diocese of El Paso as the next bishop of the Diocese of Fresno. [10] [11] Ochoa retired in 2019. The current bishop of the Diocese of Fresno is Joseph Vincent Brennan, formerly an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He was appointed by Pope Francis in 2019. [12]
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Suffragan Bishops (all Roman Rite). Upon erection of the diocese, it was administered by the Bishop of Los Angeles-San Diego. In 1924, Irish-born Most Rev. John Bernard MacGinley was transferred from the Philippines (Bishop of Nueva Caceres 1910.04.02 – 1924.03.24) to become the first bishop of Monterey-Fresno Bishop of Monterey–Fresno (USA) (1924.03.24 – 1932.09.26), followed by a long ...
In 1922, the Vatican erected the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno from the Diocese of Los Angeles-San Diego. [3] The parish in 1926 opened the St. John Hall School. At that time, St. John the Baptist Church became St. John the Baptist Cathedral. When the Diocese of Fresno was erected in 1967, St. John the Baptist remained as its cathedral. [2] [3]
The diocese is made up of 87 parishes and 20 Catholic schools, which are within the counties of Fresno, Kern, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Tulare and Kings. The parish church, said Brennan was ...
Brown was booked into the Fresno County jail for one count of murder. It was the city’s first homicide of 2024. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 559-621-7000 .
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This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno. The diocese consists of nine deaneries: Bakersfield Metropolitan; Fresno Metropolitan; Fresno Rural; High Desert; Kern Rural; Kings; Madera; Merced/Mariposa; and Tulare. [1] The mother church of the diocese is St. John's Cathedral in Fresno ...