Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. (help, get involved!)
Any material not supported by sources may be challenged and removed at any time. This article has been tagged since January 2007.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the New England region of the United States comprising of the entire state of Vermont. It is led by a prelate bishop, currently Salvatore Matano, who serves as pastor of the motherchurch. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the City of Burlington. In 2001 the Diocese rededicated St. Joseph's Church as St. Joseph's co-Cathedral.

The Diocese of Burlington was canonically erected on July 29, 1853 by Pope Pius IX. Its territories were taken from the present-day Archdiocese of Boston.

[edit] Ordinaries

  1. Louis De Goesbriand (1853-1899)
  2. John Stephen Michaud (1899-1908)
  3. Joseph John Rice (1910-1938)
  4. Matthew Francis Brady (1938-1944)
  5. Edward Francis Ryan (1944-1956)
  6. Robert Francis Joyce (1956-1971)
  7. John Aloysius Marshall (1971-1991)
  8. Kenneth Anthony Angell (1992-2005)
  9. Salvatore Ronald Matano (2005-present)

[edit] Resources


This article on a Catholic diocese is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../r/o/m/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Burlington_f2d5.html"
In other languages