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Pope Francis appointed Spalding on November 21, 2017, as the twelfth bishop of Nashville. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was consecrated on February 2, 2018. by Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz , with Archbishop Christophe Pierre and Cardinal Justin Rigali serving as co-consecrators.
Pope Francis appointed Williams as an auxiliary bishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis on December 10, 2021. [2] [1] [10] On January 25, 2022, Williams was consecrated as bishop by Archbishop Bernard Hebda at the Cathedral of Saint Paul, with Bishops Richard Pates and Andrew H. Cozzens acting as co-consecrators. [3]
Each color on the map represents an ecclesiastical province. The divisions in each province show the archdiocese and its individual dioceses. The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
In 1827, the bishop of the Diocese of St. Louis assumed jurisdiction in the new state of Indiana. In 1834, Pope Gregory XVI erected the Diocese of Vincennes, which included both Indiana and Illinois. Pope Pius IX created the Diocese of Fort Wayne for Indiana only in 1857, including the Gary area. Gary would remain part of this diocese for the ...
Pope Pius XI [e] (baptismal name: Ambrogio Ratti) 31 May 1857 Desio, Monza e Brianza Italy 10 February 1939 Vatican City: 1939 "for his efforts to end the harsh dictatorships in fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union." [23] Romualdo Silva Cortes (1880–1958) Pope Pius XII [f] (baptismal name: Eugenio Maria Pacelli) 2 March 1876 Rome ...
Bishop of Jiangmen [Kongmoon]; Titular Bishop of Sasima Jiangmen: Heroic Virtues Paul John Hallinan: 8 April 1911 Painesville, Ohio: 27 March 1962 Atlanta, Georgia: Archbishop of Atlanta Atlanta: Heroic Virtues Thomas Merton (rel. name: Louis) 31 January 1915 Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France 10 December 1968 Samut Prakan, Thailand
The next bishop of Nashville was David Choby, named by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. A study released in 2014 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., cited the Diocese of Nashville as having the 8th highest rate of conversions to the Catholic Church. [18] Choby died in 2017. The ...
Before blessing the crowd, he asked those in St. Peter's Square to pray for his predecessor, "the bishop emeritus of Rome" Pope Benedict XVI, and for himself as the new "bishop of Rome". [170] Francis held his papal inauguration on 19 March 2013 in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. [18]