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2808 Lakeshore Ave, Oakland [10] Our Lady of the Rosary 703 C Street, Union City: Sacred Heart 4025 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland St. Albert 1022 Holly St, Alameda: St. Ambrose 1145 Gilman St, Berkeley St. Anne 32223 Cabello St, Union City St. Anthony 1535 16th Ave, Oakland St. Augustine 400 Alcatraz Ave, Oakland St. Augustine
The Diocese of Oakland comprises Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Its mother church is the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. Its patron saints are Mary, mother of Jesus and Francis de Sales. [2] The diocese filed for bankruptcy in May 2023 due to the cost of lawsuits by victims of child sex abuse by the diocese's clergy.
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.
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The mausoleum features twelve crypts reserved for the bishops of Oakland and burial sites available to the members of the diocese for a comparable price to the other Catholic cemeteries in the diocese. The cathedral center also houses City Lights Cafe and the Cathedral Shop, as well as a public plaza and garden. [2]
That same year, the Diocese of Oakland was created from the Archdiocese of San Francisco and St. Joseph's became part of the Oakland diocese. Monsignor Wagner retired in 1983 and it was then that the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (SSCC) was asked by the Oakland Diocese to staff St. Joseph.
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.
The Vatican erected the new Diocese of Monterey in 1849 to remove these areas from the jurisdiction of the Mexican Catholic hierarchy. The new diocese covered the California Territory east to the Colorado River. [5] St. Francis of Assisi Parish was founded in San Francisco in 1849 and St. Patrick in the same city in 1851.