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On December 1, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Ochoa as bishop of Fresno, [6] [4] succeeding Bishop John Steinbock, who had died in December 2010.On February 1, 2019, Ochoa announced an outside investigation of the diocese human resource records for all allegations of sexual abuse against clerics since 1922, with a report to be issued to the public after the investigation had concluded.
Joseph Vincent Brennan (born March 20, 1954) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Fresno since 2019. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2015 to 2019.
The next bishop of Fresno was bishop John Steinbock from the Diocese of Santa Rosa, appointed by John Paul II in 1991. [9] In 2003, the Diocese of Fresno was one of only four dioceses in the United States that did not participate in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops review of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young ...
Fresno diocese leader Bishop Joseph V. Brennan said the move to file for bankruptcy was necessary since the diocese has been flooded with sexual abuse claims.
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 ...
Bishop John Steinbock greets a fellow Knight of Columbus.. John Thomas Steinbock (July 16, 1937 – December 5, 2010) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as the fourth bishop of the Diocese of Fresno in California from 1991 until his death in 2010.
The Fresno Diocese Bishop had a message to Gov. Gavin Newsom: “Sign this legislation.” Catholic leader joins farmworker union in its march through California’s Central Valley Skip to main ...
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 ...