Roman Catholic Diocese of Yakima
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Yakima is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the central region of the state of Washington in the United States. It is led by a prelate bishop who serves as pastor to the motherchurch in the Yakima Cathedral of Saint Paul. The current bishop is Carlos Arthur Sevilla, SJ, who was formerly an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Canonically erected on June 23, 1951, the diocese comprises Benton, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat and Yakima counties. The diocese is a ceremonial suffragen of the ecclesiastical province of Seattle, whose metropolitan is the Archbishop of Seattle.
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