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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.
The Cathedral of the Risen Christ is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. The cathedral parish traces its roots back to Holy Family Church, a parish founded in 1926 and organized in 1932. [1] On June 20, 1963, the construction was begun on Cathedral of the Risen Christ.
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.
The modern diocese remains notoriously extensive, having been reportedly referred to by Bob Hardy, Bishop of Lincoln, as "2,000 square miles of bugger all" in 2002. [ 1 ] The dioceses of Oxford and Peterborough were created in 1541 out of parts of the diocese, which left the diocese with two disconnected fragments, north and south.
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln (5 P) Pages in category "Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Pages in category "Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
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 ...