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The first Catholic chapel in Western Missouri was established at Chocteau's Bluff near present-day Kansas City, Missouri. [ 3 ] With the Louisiana Purchase of 1804, Missouri passed from France to the United States and the bishop of the Diocese of New Orleans assumed jurisdiction for Catholics in Missouri.
Kansas City in Kansas: Statistics; Area: 12,524 sq mi (32,440 km 2) Population- Total- Catholics (as of 2012) 1,320,000 in 2011: 205,531 (16.8%) Parishes: 120: Information; Denomination: Catholic: Sui iuris church: Latin Church: Rite: Roman Rite: Established: May 22, 1877 as the Diocese of Leavenworth; May 10, 1947 as the Diocese of Kansas City ...
•1891.05.29: Title Changed to Diocese of Kansas City, Kansas •1897.03.05: Title Changed to Diocese of Leavenworth •1947.05.10: See Transferred and Title Changed to Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas •1952: Elevated to Archdiocese •1995: Title of Bishop of Leavenworth Restored as Titular Episcopal See [17] Diocese of Natchez: St. Mary ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City may refer to one of two dioceses in the United States: Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City–Saint Joseph (Missouri); or; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
A new Holy Cross early education center is now under construction — the first school building the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph has built within Kansas City boundaries since St ...
Joseph Fred Naumann (1997–2004), appointed Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas; Timothy Michael Dolan (2001–2002), appointed Archbishop of Milwaukee and later Archbishop of New York (Cardinal in 2012) Robert Joseph Hermann (2002–2010) Edward Matthew Rice (2010–2016), appointed Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau; Mark Steven Rivituso ...
On August 29, 1956, Pope Pius XII merged the western part of the Diocese of St. Joseph with the northern part of Diocese of Kansas City to form the Diocese of Kansas City–St. Joseph. [3] The rest of what was the Kansas City Diocese became part of the newly established Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau. As a result, the Diocese of Kansas ...
The Diocese of Saint Joseph (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Iosephi) was a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the northwestern part of the state of Missouri in the United States, erected on March 3, 1868, with territories taken from the Archdiocese of Saint Louis.