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200 E Illinois St, Lemont St. Christopher 4130-147th St, Midlothian: St. Damian 5300-155th St, Oak Forest: Our Lady of the Woods 10731 W 131st St, Orland Park: St. Elizabeth Seton 9300 W 167th St, Orland Park St. Francis of Assisi 15050 S Wolf Rd, Orland Park St. Michael 14327 Highland Ave, Orland Park St. Alexander 7025 W 126th St, Palos Heights
The Diocese of Springfield in Illinois is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Chicago. [2] On April 20, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI named Thomas J. Paprocki as the ninth bishop of Springfield in Illinois. [3]
The cathedral parish for the archdiocese, Holy Name Cathedral, is in the Near North Side area of Chicago. The archdiocese serves over 2 million Catholics in Cook and Lake counties, an area of 1,411 square miles (3,650 km 2). The archdiocese is divided into six vicariates and 31 deaneries. An episcopal vicar administers each vicariate.
This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in Vicariate I of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Vicariate I covers Lake County, Illinois, and portions of northern Cook County. It includes the communities of Des Plaines, Elk Grove Village, Lake Forest, Mount Prospect, Mundelein, Schaumburg, and Waukegan.
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 eparchy's cathedral is in Bellwood, Illinois. The Mar Thoma Shleeha Cathedral is a parish church with almost 1000 families and is seat to the bishop. The cathedral was dedicated on July 5, 2008. As of 2014, there were an estimated 87,600 Syro-Malabar Catholics in the United States.
The Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches in North America and Central America comprise 14 episcopal conferences, which together include 100 ecclesiastical provinces, each of which is headed by a metropolitan archbishop.
Interior, 2022. The Diocese of Joliet was established by Pope Pius XII on December 11, 1948. [2] St. Raymond's was chosen to be the diocese's cathedral. It was decided that the church was not adequate for cathedral functions, so plans were made for a new cathedral church.