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Historic St. Ignatius, located in St. Inigoes, St. Mary's County, Maryland, was the First Catholic parish in English speaking North America. 38°09′01″N 76°25′26″W / 38.150327°N 76.423943°W / 38.150327; -76.
Archdiocese of Washington masthead. The Archdiocese of Washington (Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Vashingtonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States. The Archdiocese of Washington is home to the Catholic ...
As of 2024, the archdiocese had 153 active parishes and missions. [2] The archdiocese covers Baltimore and nine counties in central and western Maryland: Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, and Washington. The cathedral church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, consecrated in ...
[8] [1] The pope appointed Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Welsh of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia as the first bishop of Arlington. [9] During his tenure, Welsh established six new parishes and dedicated eleven new churches in the diocese. He created the Office of Migration and Refugee Services in 1975 and the Family Life Bureau in 1977.
On April 4, 2019, Pope Francis named Gregory as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] He was installed on May 21, 2019. [ 37 ] The archdiocese comprises 139 parishes in the District of Columbia and the Maryland counties of Calvert, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's, and Saint Mary's.
Keleher’s replacement, Bishop Wilton Gregory, now a cardinal in Washington, D.C., led the Belleville Diocese for 11 years and served as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from ...
The Church of the Blessed Sacrament is a Roman Catholic parish within the Archdiocese of Seattle serving Seattle's University District. It is the only parish in the archdiocese to be owned and operated by the Order of Preachers and is within the jurisdiction of the Western Dominican Province .
The Archdiocese of Seattle (Latin: Archidiœcesis Seattlensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in western Washington State in the United States. The Diocese was known as the Diocese of Nesqually from 1850 to 1907. The mother church of the archdiocese is St. James Cathedral in Seattle.