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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.
The first Mass in Kalamazoo was celebrated in his home by Father De Seille in 1832. [2] A mission was established in Kalamazoo in 1843 and placed under the care of the Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C. from Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Framework for a church was erected the following year, but it was felled in a windstorm and the building was not ...
In 1821, the pope erected the Diocese of Cincinnati, taking the Michigan Territory from the Diocese of Bardstown. [2] Pope Gregory XVI formed the Diocese of Detroit in 1833, covering the entire Michigan Territory. Pope Leo XIII erected the Diocese of Grand Rapids out of the Archdiocese of Detroit in 1882, including Kalamazoo. The Kalamazoo area ...
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]
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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]
The Lansing diocese includes three of Michigan's largest cities (Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Flint) and covers 10 counties as follows: Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Hillsdale, Ingham, Jackson, Lenawee, Livingston, Shiawassee and Washtenaw. [2] The cathedral church of the diocese is the Gothic Revival St. Mary Cathedral, built in 1913 in Lansing.
The Cathedral included office space that was rented by the Diocese of Western Michigan until 2006 when the offices moved to their present quarters in a Kalamazoo office building. Without the rental income from the diocese, the cathedral became unsustainable and was sold in 2007 to the non-denominational Valley Family Church.