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Diocesan offices, Arlington, Virginia 2013 Basilica of St. Mary, Alexandria, Virginia (2019) 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 ...
Metropolitan School of the Arts Academy, Lorton (7–12) Middleburg Academy, Middleburg (9–12) Montessori School of Northern Virginia, Annandale (PS-6) Oakwood School, Alexandria (K-8) Paul VI Catholic High School, Fairfax (9-12) Potomac School, McLean (K–12) Randolph-Macon Academy, Front Royal (6-12) The River Farm Cooperative, Alexandria ...
Except in the case of independent schools, local priests are invariably members of the school board, and often at secondary schools are found among the teaching staff as well. In some dioceses the bishop holds the title of superintendent, while others have delegated this responsibility to the head of the Office of Catholic Schools.
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. Thomas More in Arlington.
As a diocesan school of the Diocese of Arlington, it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In 2012 it was included in the Cardinal Newman Society's Top 50 Catholic High Schools list. [2] It was placed on the list again in 2014. [3] In 2013 it was chosen by the editors of Virginia Living magazine as a 2013 Top ...
Bishop Denis J. O'Connell High School (also known as DJO [4]) is a private, 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.
A consolidation of existing Catholic schools, it was formerly co-sponsored by four Hoboken churches, Our Lady of Grace, St. Ann, St. Francis, and Sts. Peter and Paul, along with St. Lawrence Church in Hoboken, before the archdiocese's Lighting the Way program changed the allocation of money for schools in the archdiocese. [19]
Peninsula Catholic High School was founded in 1903 as St. Vincent de Paul School for girls by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth with the help of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan, who donated significant funds and the original school building in downtown Newport News; it became co-educational in 1929 when the Xaverian Brothers closed their school for boys.