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The Diocese of Knoxville (Latin: Dioecesis Knoxvillensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in eastern Tennessee in the United States. It was founded on May 27, 1988, from the eastern counties of what was then the Diocese of Nashville .
The Rev. Xavier Mankel was named pastor in 1987. The following year on May 27 [3] Pope John Paul II established the Diocese of Knoxville and Sacred Heart became the new diocese's cathedral. [4] All Saints Parish, which included parts of Sacred Heart, was established in September 1994. The Rev. Al Humbrecht was named pastor in 1997.
Richard Frank Stika (born July 4, 1957) is an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Knoxville from 2009 to 2023. Stika resigned as Bishop of Knoxville at the request of Pope Francis . He had been accused of covering up the rape of a diocesan employee by a former seminarian, among other allegations of misconduct and mismanagement.
The Catholic Diocese of Knoxville has a new bishop.. Pope Francis appointed to the job the Rev. James Mark Beckman, who has spent more than 30 years as a priest in the Diocese of Nashville.
He returned to Tennessee and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Nashville in 1990. Between then and his appointment as bishop in Knoxville, Beckman served as pastor of five different parishes ...
James Mark Beckman was born on October 19, 1962 into a large Catholic family deeply rooted in Lawrenceburg, TN, a small town in Middle Tennessee, within the Diocese of Nashville, to parents Jimmy and Louis Beckman.
A Sevier County lawsuit alleges the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville mishandled a report about a priest sexually assaulting a parishioner two years ago.
Joseph Edward Kurtz (born August 18, 1946) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Louisville in Kentucky from 2007 to 2022. He previously served as the bishop of the Diocese of Knoxville in Tennessee from 1999 to 2007.