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Dioceses of the Catholic Church in the United States. White borders demarcate Latin Church dioceses, and black borders demarcate Latin Church provinces.. The Catholic dioceses and archdioceses of the United States which include both the dioceses of the Latin Church, which employ the Roman Rite and other Latin liturgical rites, and various other dioceses, primarily the eparchies of the Eastern ...
The diocese was established in 1887, following the arrival of many Irish, German and Czech Catholic immigrants to the region. Starting in 2003, amid a widespread sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, Lincoln was the only diocese in the United States to refuse to comply with the church's procedures for handling sexual abuse allegations.
In 1997, the diocese purchased the former Rivendell Psychiatric Hospital for Juveniles in Seward, Nebraska, for $1.35 million ($2.56 million in 2023); following the purchase, more than $1 million in renovations were done to convert the property. [1] [2] The seminary opened in August 1998, with 21 seminarians from the Diocese of Lincoln. [3]
Pages in category "Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The archdeaconry has existed since the 11th century, when archdeacons were first appointed across England, and has remained in the Diocese of Lincoln since. Since ancient times, the territory of the archdeaconry covered all of Lincolnshire (barring the West Riding of Lindsey, the Stow archdeaconry); that territory has remained broadly similar throughout her thousand-year history.
By virtue of the 2009 scheme of delegation, [2] whilst the Bishop of Lincoln exercises general oversight, the Bishops of Grimsby and of Grantham [3] were seen as leaders in mission in the north and south of the Diocese respectively until that scheme lapsed upon the 6 April 2013 retirement of the Bishop of Grimsby, which was followed by a review of roles of bishops in the diocese. [4]
Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz (born September 6, 1935) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln in Nebraska, from 1992 to 2012. A 2021 report by the Nebraska Attorney General cited several instances in which Bruskewitz failed to investigate claims of sexual abuse.
James Douglas Conley (born March 19, 1955) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln in Nebraska since 2012. He served as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Denver in Colorado from 2008 to 2012.