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This is a list of current Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. The archdiocese serves all 412,725 Catholics in Oregon, west of the Cascade Mountains. The cathedral church of the archdiocese is St. Mary's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
On January 29, 2013, Sample was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Portland, succeeding the retiring Archbishop John Vlazny. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] He was the last American residential bishop appointed during the pontificate of Benedict XVI. [ 13 ]
Capacity for 500 seminarians; there were 35 in 2018. [55] Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary, Dundalk. Seminary for the Archdiocese of Armagh run under the auspices of the Neocatechumenal Way. [56] In 2017 it was training 16 seminarians from eight countries. [57] Students travel to Maynooth to study philosophy and theology.
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's sexual abuse scandal prompted the archbishop to file for Chapter 11 reorganization for the archdiocese on July 6, 2004. Portland became the first archdiocese or diocese to file for bankruptcy. [29] [30] [31] Vlazny described his actions by saying, "This is not an effort to avoid responsibility. It is, in fact, the only way I ...
The seminary is owned and administered by the Archdiocese of Washington and was founded in 2011 by Cardinal Donald Wuerl. The seminary is named after Pope St. John Paul II . St. John Paul II Seminary is located near the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the campus of The Catholic University of America , where the ...
The Janiculum campus of the Pontifical North American College, as seen from the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in June 2014.. This is a partial list of notable alumni of the Pontifical North American College in Rome, a Catholic educational institution that forms and educates seminarians and student priests for dioceses in the United States (as well as Canada and Australia).
On February 12, 1875, Pope Pius IX elevated the Diocese of Boston to the Archdiocese of Boston. [11] He moved the Diocese of Portland from the Archdiocese of New York to the new archdiocese. [12] That same month, the pope appointed James Healy from Boston as the new bishop. Healy was the first African-American Catholic bishop in the United ...