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The Diocese of Richmond encompasses all of central and southern Virginia, the Hampton Roads area, and the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay.. As of 2022, the diocese had 135 diocesan and religious priests serving a Catholic population of 226,674 in 138 parishes and eight missions.
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.
Francis Joseph Parater (October 10, 1897 – February 7, 1920) was an American Catholic seminarian from the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia who died of rheumatic fever at the age of 22 during his theological studies in Rome.
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.
Pope Paul VI erected the Diocese of Arlington on May 28, 1974, removing its territory from the Diocese of Richmond. [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.
Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS), formally the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia, [2] is an Episcopal seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. It is the largest and second-oldest such accredited seminary in the United States .
He served as the eleventh bishop of the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia from 1974 to 2003. Sullivan served as an auxiliary bishop of the same diocese from 1970 to 1974. From 2003 until his death, Sullivan resided in Saint Paul's Parish in Richmond and continued to be active in the diocese, assisting his successor Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo.
Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.