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Diocesan offices, Arlington, Virginia Basilica of St. Mary, Alexandria, Virginia. The Diocese of Arlington (Latin: Dioecesis Arlingtonensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Northern Virginia in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The Cathedral of St. Thomas ...
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington. The diocese includes approximately 80 churches divided into seven deaneries across the 21 northernmost counties and independent cities within the Commonwealth of Virginia. [1] The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral of St ...
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington (7 P) Pages in category "Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School (also known as DJO [3]) is a Catholic college preparatory school founded in 1957 in Arlington County, Virginia.It was established by the Diocese of Richmond, but it has been under the direction of the Diocese of Arlington since 1974.
Catholic Distance University was established in 1983 in the Arlington diocese by Bishop Thomas Jerome Welsh. [3] In 2015, the university relocated its headquarters to Charles Town, West Virginia, as part of its strategic vision.
The Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (Latin: Ordo initiationis christianae adultorum), or OCIA, is a process developed by the Catholic Church for its catechumenate for prospective converts to the Catholic faith above the age of infant baptism. Candidates are gradually introduced to aspects of Catholic beliefs and practices.
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.
The current church was constructed in 1961 above the 1950 sanctuary. It was elevated to a cathedral when the northern counties of Virginia split from the Diocese of Richmond to form the Diocese of Arlington and the first bishop was installed on August 13, 1974. [3] The parish currently consists of 1,400 members. [4]