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The following is a list of bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Texas. The Texas Catholic Church comprises 15 Latin Church dioceses and one personal ordinariate led by a bishop. The 15 Latin dioceses are divided into two ecclesiastical provinces. Each province has a metropolitan archdiocese led by an archbishop, and six, Galveston-Houston ...
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 archdiocese was erected in 2004, having been a diocese since 1959 and the "Diocese of Galveston" since 1847. It is the second metropolitan see in Texas after the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The mother church of the archdiocese is St. Mary Cathedral Basilica in Galveston; [3] the co-cathedral is the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston.
Gorman revived the Texas Catholic newspaper, which had been suspended since 1894. He constructed 25 parochial schools and erected 20 new parishes. [15] In 1969, the Vatican separated the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth into the Diocese of Dallas and the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth. [1]
The Diocese of Austin (Latin: Dioecesis Austiniensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church comprising 25 counties of Central Texas in the United States. The diocese estimates a population of over 625,000 Catholics.
It closed in 2016 when it was merged with St. Joseph Church. In 2018, [128] and 2019, there were protests advocating that the archdiocese reopen the church. The leadership of the Catholic church overruled the archdiocese and ordered the church to reopen, but as of 2019 no such reopening has yet occurred. [127]
The Archdiocese of San Antonio (Latin: Archidioecesis Sancti Antonii) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States. It encompasses 27,841 square miles (72,110 km 2) in the U.S. state of Texas. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio had a self-reported 2018 population of 796,954, up from 728,001 in 2014. [4]
The first Catholic mission in Texas, then part of the Spanish Empire, was San Francisco de los Tejas. It was founded by Franciscan Father Damián Massanet in 1690 in the Weches area. The priests left the mission after three years, then established a second mission, Nuestro Padre San Francisco de los Tejas , near present-day Alto in 1716.