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The Diocese of Springfield in Illinois is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Chicago. [2] On April 20, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI named Thomas J. Paprocki as the ninth bishop of Springfield in Illinois.
The Diocese of Springfield is part of the official name of four dioceses in the United States, three Roman Catholic and one Episcopal: Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Illinois Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts
The cathedral is the second building in Springfield to be consecrated to the Immaculate Conception, the first being a Catholic church in use from 1858 until 1928. When the seat of the diocese moved to Springfield in 1923, it needed a larger structure to serve as cathedral.
Thomas John Joseph Paprocki (born August 5, 1952) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois since 2010. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois from 2003 to 2010. [1]
Bishop Edward Rice, of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, says a prayer while blessing the Rancho Motel, that Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri has turned into a winter shelter for ...
Parish House. John Batchelder of Trinity Church in Jacksonville, Illinois occasionally came to Springfield starting in 1832 to hold services for the local Episcopalians. St. Paul's parish was established by Philander Chase, the first Bishop of Illinois, on June 19, 1835; the same year the Diocese of Illinois was established.
The diocese and Bishop Edward Rice are listed as defendants in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Springfield regarding purported abuse of children dating back as far as the late 1960s by ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Illinois is in charge of Roman Catholicism in the Illinois counties of Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian ...