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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, or seven, San Antonio, suffragan dioceses.
Pope Pius XII erected the Diocese of Austin on November 15, 1947, and named Reverend Louis Reicher of the Diocese of Galveston as its first bishop. During his tenure, Reicher built or restored over 200 churches and facilities, including a chancery office, Holy Cross Hospital in East Austin, Texas, Newman Centers on five college campuses, and ...
Where a diocese is in bold type it indicates that the bishop is the current bishop of that diocese. Titular sees are not listed. Under consecrators are the numbers (or letters) referencing previous bishops on the list. The number listed first represents the principal consecrator.
Monsignor Joseph Lynch of Dallas was the third bishop of the diocese, named by Pope Pius X in 1911. [19] During the Mexican Revolution, Lynch became an advocate on behalf of Catholic Mexican refugees displaced to Dallas. [20] In 1914, the Vatican erected the Diocese of El Paso in West Texas, taking territory
When a diocese is suppressed or when the diocesan see is transferred to another location, the title of the former see becomes available for assignment to a titular bishop or, in the case of an archdiocese, a titular archbishop or an archbishop ad personam. The Vatican resurrected the names of many former sees of the United States in the 1990s ...
The sixth Bishop of Texas, Maurice M. Benitez, was elected in 1980. In June 1993 Claude E. Payne was elected the fourth bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Texas and became the seventh Bishop of Texas February 10, 1995. Don Wimberly became the eighth bishop of Texas in June, 2003, retiring at the mandatory age of 72 on June 6, 2009.
Pages in category "Episcopal bishops of Texas" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
After Nold went blind in 1963, Pope Paul VI named Bishop John Morkovsky from the Diocese of Amarillo as coadjutor bishop. While coadjutor bishop, Morkovsky in 1964 he founded the diocesan newspaper The Texas Catholic Herald. [32] He established the first diocesan mission in Guatemala City in 1966.