Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland (Latin: Dioecesis Clevelandensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Ohio. It was founded on April 23, 1847 and is currently the fifteenth largest diocese in the United States. It comprises the counties of Cuyahoga, Summit, Lorain, Lake, Geauga, Medina, Wayne and Ashland.
There about 800,000 Roman Catholics in the Diocese of Cleveland, which contains 240 parishes, 22 Catholic high schools, 3 Catholic hospitals, 3 universities, 2 shrine churches, St. Paul Shrine Church and St. Stanislaus Church, and 2 seminaries (Center for Pastoral Leadership). The diocese's cathedral is the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, located in downtown Cleveland. As of April 2006, there were 600 priests and 800 nuns in the diocese.
The diocese's past bishops are:
- Louis Amadeus Rappe (1847 – 1870)
- Richard Gilmour (1872 – 1891)
- Ignatius Frederick Horstmann (1891 – 1908)
- John Patrick Farrelly (1909 – 1921)
- Joseph Schrembs (1921 – 1945)
- Edward Francis Hoban (1945 – 1966)
- Clarence George Issenmann (1966 – 1974)
- James Aloysius Hickey (1974 – 1980)
- Anthony Michael Pilla (1980 – 2006)
- Richard Lennon (2006—)
The Diocese of Cleveland currently has three auxiliary bishops:
- Western Region: Alexander James Quinn (1983—)
- Akron Region: Martin Amos (2001—)
- Eastern Region: Roger Gries O.S.B. (2001—)
Two former Bishops of Cleveland have been elevated to cardinals: Bishop John Krol, auxiliary bishop from 1951 to 1961, elevated to Archbishop of Philadelphia, made Cardinal 1967, died in 1996, and Bishop James Hickey, bishop from 1974 to 1980, elevated to Archbishop of Washington, made Cardinal 1983, died in 2004.
