Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette

Diocese of Marquette Dioecesis Marquettensis
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Counties of Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Luce, Mackinac, Marquette, Menominee, Ontonagon, and Schoolcraft
Ecclesiastical province	Detroit
Statistics
Area	16,281 sq mi (42,170 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 317,616 68,360 (21.5%)
Parishes	74
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	July 29, 1853 (161 years ago)
Cathedral	St. Peter Cathedral
Patron saint	St. Peter
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	John Francis Doerfler
Map
Website
dioceseofmarquette.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette (Latin: Dioecesis Marquettensis) is a suffragan diocese of the Roman rite, encompassing all of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of Detroit. It encompasses an area of 16,281 square miles (42,152 square kilometers). Its cathedral is St. Peter Cathedral in Marquette, which replaced Holy Name of Mary Pro-Cathedral at Sault Ste. Marie.

As of 2000, the number of registered Catholics in the diocese was 65,500. Fifty-eight diocesan priests and 11 religious were serving the people at 74 parishes and 23 missions. There were 10 parish grade schools. Sixty-three women religious were also in service to the diocese.

History

This diocese was originally established as the Vicariate Apostolic of Upper Michigan on July 29, 1853, formed by a division of the Diocese of Detroit. The Vicarate Apostolic of Upper Michigan was raised to the status of a Diocese as the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie on January 9, 1857. The see was transferred to Marquette in 1865 See city, and the Diocese was renamed the Diocese of Marquette. The Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie is now maintained as a titular see.

Current Leadership

Following the elevation of Bishop Alexander King Sample to become the next Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon (Portland, Oregon) in 2013 following the resignation for age reasons of Archbishop John George Vlazny, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette, Michigan, was a vacant see (sede vacante). On Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Pope Francis appointed the Very Reverend John Francis Doerfler, who until then had been serving as Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay (Green Bay, Wisconsin), as the next bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette. Bishop-elect Doerfler was born on November 2, 1964, in Appleton, Wisconsin, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. He completed the requisite undergraduate Philosophy and graduate Theology coursework for ordination to the Catholic priesthood by attending the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota (in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis), where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy in 1987, followed by studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University (the "Greg"), at the Vatican, in Rome, Italy, while in residence as a seminarian at the Pontifical North American College, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Theology in 1991. He was ordained to the priesthood on July 13, 1991, for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay.^[1] His episcopal Consecration is scheduled to be held at St. Peter Cathedral in Marquette on February 11, 2014.

Ordinaries

The ordinary of the Diocese of Marquette is a bishop whose episcopal see is located at Cathedral of Saint Peter in Marquette.

The list of bishops and their terms of service:

1. Most Rev. Ireneus Frederic Baraga (1853–1868)
2. Most Rev. Ignatius Mrak (1868–1879)
3. Most Rev. John Vertin (1879–1899)
4. Most Rev. Frederick Eis (1899–1922)
5. Most Rev. Paul Joseph Nussbaum (1922–1935)
6. Most Rev. Joseph Casimir Plagens (1935–1940)
7. Most Rev. Francis Joseph Magner (1940–1947)
8. Most Rev. Thomas Lawrence Noa (1947–1968)
9. Most Rev. Charles Salatka (1968–1977)
10. Most Rev. Mark Francis Schmitt (1978–1992)
11. Most Rev. James Henry Garland (1992–2005)
12. Most Rev. Alexander King Sample (2005–2013)^[2]
13. Most Rev. John Francis Doerfler (2014-)

See also

• Catholic Church by country
• Catholic Church hierarchy
• Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
• List of the Catholic dioceses of the United States
• Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops

References

External links

• Roman Catholic Diocese Of Marquette
• Catholic Hierarchy: Diocese of Marquette
• GCatholic.org
•  "Diocese of Marquette". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. 

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  St. Peter Cathedral

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  Holy Name of Mary Pro-Cathedral

Diocese of Marquette Bishops Ireneus Frederic Baraga Ignatius Mrak John Vertin Frederick Eis Paul Joseph Nussbaum Joseph Casimir Plagens Francis Joseph Magner Thomas Lawrence Noa Charles Salatka Mark Francis Schmitt James Henry Garland Alexander King Sample John Francis Doerfler Churches Cathedral St. Peter Cathedral, Marquette Parish Churches St. Ignatius Loyola Church, Houghton St. John the Evangelist Church, Ishpeming Immaculate Conception Church, Iron Mountain Ste. Anne Church, Mackinac Island St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Menominee Holy Name of Mary Pro-Cathedral, Sault Ste. Marie Church of Our Saviour, Friend of Children, Sugar Island Catholicism Portal

Coordinates: 46°32′28″N 87°23′56″W / 46.54111°N 87.39889°W / 46.54111; -87.39889