Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas (Latin: Dioecesis Dallasensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Texas. It was founded on July 15, 1890 by Pope Leo XIII. As of May 2008, the Diocese has more than one million (1,000,000) Catholics in 80 parishes served by 208 priests, 160 deacons, 142 sisters, and 7 brothers.[1]

It is made up of 9 counties in North Texas: Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, and Rockwall. The diocese is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Diocesan information at catholic-hierarchy.org

Contents 1 Coat of Arms 2 Bishops 3 Churches 3.1 Cathedral 3.2 Parishes 3.3 Other 4 High schools 5 Sex Abuse Scandal 6 External links

[edit] Coat of Arms

The Diocese's coat of arms has a red field in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The diagonal white band represents the Trinity River located within the diocese. The fleurs-de-lis within the band are in honor of Pope Leo XIII and are taken from his coat of arms. The fleur-de-lis is repeated three times to represent the Holy Trinity. The star represents Dallas, which is in the "Lone Star State." The two swords honor St. Paul, who is the patron saint of the first Catholic settlement in Northeast Texas.

[edit] Bishops

The past bishops of the diocese include:

• Thomas Francis Brennan (1890–1892)
• Edward Joseph Dunne (1893–1910)
• Joseph Patrick Lynch (1911–1954)
• Thomas K. Gorman (1954–1969)
• Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe (1969–1990)
• Charles Victor Grahmann (1990–2007)
• Kevin Farrell (1 May 2007—)

[edit] Churches

[edit] Cathedral

• Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe

[edit] Parishes

Inside Dallas All Saints Blessed Sacrament Christ the King Holy Cross Holy Trinity Nuestra Señora del Pilar Our Lady of Lourdes Our Lady of Perpetual Help Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos-St. Theresa of Infant Jesus St. Andrew Kim (Korean) St. Anthony St. Augustine St. Bernard of Clairvaux St. Cecilia Santa Clara of Assisi St. Edward St. Elizabeth of Hungary St. James St. Juan Diego St. Jude Chapel St. Mary of Carmel St. Monica St. Patrick St. Peter (Vietnamese) St. Peter the Apostle (Polish) St. Philip the Apostle St. Pius X St. Rita St. Thomas Aquinas

Outside Dallas Allen Our Lady of the Angels St. Jude Bonham - St. Elizabeth Carrollton - Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ (Vietnamese) Commerce - St. Joseph Coppell - St. Ann Corsicana - Immaculate Conception Denison - St. Patrick Duncanville - Holy Spirit Ennis - St. John Nepomucene Farmers Branch - Mary Immaculate Ferris - Corpus Christi Forney - St. Martin Frisco - St. Francis of Assisi Garland Good Shepherd Our Mother of Perpetual Help (Vietnamese) St. Mary Malankara (Syro-Malankar) St. Michael the Archangel St. Thomas the Apostle (Syro-Malabar) Grand Prairie Immaculate Conception St. Joseph (Vietnamese) St. Michael the Archangel Greenville - St. William Irving Church of the Incarnation Holy Family of Nazareth St. Basil the Great (Byzantine) St. Luke

Outside Dallas (continued) Italy - Epiphany Kaufman - St. Ann Lancaster - St. Francis of Assisi Lewisville - Our Lady of Lebanon (Maronite) McKinney St. Gabriel the Archangel St. Michael the Archangel Mesquite - Divine Mercy of Our Lord Plano Our Lady of Angels Prince of Peace St. Elizabeth Ann Seton St. Mark the Evangelist The Mission of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Chinese) Quinlan - Our Lady of Fatima Richardson St. Joseph St. Paul the Apostle Rockwall - Our Lady of the Lake Rowlett - Sacred Heart Sherman - St. Mary Terrell - St. John the Apostle The Colony - St. Sophia (Ukrainian) Van Alstyne - Holy Family Waxahachie - St. Joseph Whitesboro - St. Francis of Assisi Wylie - St. Anthony

[edit] Other

• Southern Methodist University Catholic Campus Ministry

[edit] High schools

• Bishop Dunne Catholic School, Dallas
• Bishop Lynch High School, Dallas
• Cistercian Preparatory School, Irving
• The Highlands School, Irving
• Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas
• John Paul II High School, Plano
• St. John High School, Ennis
• Ursuline Academy of Dallas

[edit] Sex Abuse Scandal

In 1997 a jury awarded $120 million to victims in a sex abuse case against the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas. The transcript of this trial is 9,000 pages. 3,000 of those pages have been edited by five volunteers to remove the names of victims to protect them and their families. These pages have been posted online at http://www.wearethechurch.org/kos/. They include the testimony under oath of Bishop Charles Grahmann where he admitted to never having taken the time to read the personnel file on Fr. Kos. This included the four-year history of allegations before he came to Dallas and the allegations that continued after he was bishop. Around April 1992, a child abuse expert who only knew a small part of this documented history declared Rev. Kos to be a "textbook pedophile." Bishop Grahmann still did not read the record and allowed Rev. Kos to have access to children for almost one full year more. The last documented incident of abuse was 11 months later.

• Reverend Rudolph Kos. On July 10, 1998 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Kos.

[edit] External links

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas Home Page