Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City

Diocese of Salt Lake City Dioecesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi
Location
Country	United States
Territory	State of Utah
Metropolitan	San Francisco
Statistics
Area	84,990 sq mi (220,100 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2014) 2,900,872 291,000 [1] (10%)
Parishes	48[1]
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	January 27, 1891
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Madeleine
Patron saint	St. Mary Magdalene St. Joseph
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Sede Vacante
Metropolitan Archbishop	Salvatore J. Cordileone
Map
Website
Diocese of Salt Lake Site

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, officially, in Latin, Dioecesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi, is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. It comprises the entire state of Utah. Also known as the Utah Catholic Church or the See of Salt Lake City, its mother church is the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. The see is currently vacant (sede vacante) as of April 27, 2015, when Pope Francis appointed Bishop John Charles Wester, the Diocese's ninth bishop, as Metropolitan Archbishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, succeeding the retiring Archbishop Michael Jarboe Sheehan, 75.

Salt Lake City is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, along with the dioceses of Honolulu, Las Vegas, Oakland, Reno, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Stockton. The Metropolitan is Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.

History

Cathedral of the Madeleine, looking east

In 1871 Fr. Patrick Walsh built the first Catholic Church in Utah, dedicating it to St. Mary Magdalene. Father (later Bishop) Lawrence Scanlan arrived in 1873 to become pastor. He took care of the Catholic military men, immigrant miners and railroad workers who numbered in the hundreds. Small churches, schools, an orphanage and a hospital were built, staffed by clergy and by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, to serve the growing Catholic population. As the nineteenth century came to a close, the Catholic community in Salt Lake City was rapidly outgrowing the small church of St. Mary Magdalene. The Church in Utah became an Apostolic Vicariate in 1887, and a Diocese in 1891. Bishop Lawrence Scanlan was the first Catholic bishop of Utah. Ground was broken for the new church in 1899. Construction for the Cathedral of the Madeleine would last nearly a decade, costing a small fortune for the estimated 3,000 Catholics in Utah at the turn of the century. Assistance was obtained from Catholic Mission Societies.^[2]

Ordinaries

The following are the lists of bishops and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their dates of service.

Bishops

1. Lawrence Scanlan † (November 23, 1886 – May 10, 1915, died)
2. Joseph Sarsfield Glass † (June 1, 1915 – January 26, 1926, died)
3. John Joseph Mitty † (June 21, 1926 – January 29, 1932, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco)
4. James Edward Kearney † (July 1, 1932 – July 31, 1937, appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester)
5. Duane Garrison Hunt † (August 6, 1937 – March 31, 1960, died)
6. Joseph Lennox Federal † (March 31, 1960 – April 22, 1980, retired)
7. William Kenneth Weigand (September 9, 1980 – November 30, 1993, appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento)
8. George Hugh Niederauer (November 3, 1994 – December 15, 2005, appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco)
9. John Charles Wester (January 8, 2007 – April 27, 2015, appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe)^[1]

Auxiliary Bishops

• Leo John Steck † (1948 – 1950)

Education

Superintendents of Schools

• Rev. Robert J. Dwyer (1941 – 1952)^[3]
• Rev. Joseph M. Mayo (1994 – 1998)^[4]
• Sr. Catherine Kamphaus, CSC (1998 – 2015)^[5]
• Mark Longe (2015 – present)^[5]

High Schools

• Juan Diego Catholic High School, Draper
• Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City
• St. Joseph Catholic High School, Ogden

See also

Notes

1. 1 2 3 "Diocese of Salt Lake City". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. 1 April 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-19. 
2. ↑ "History of the Diocese". Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake. Retrieved 2013-09-19. 
3. ↑ Curtis, Georgina Pell (1961). The American Catholic Who's Who XIV. Grosse Pointe, Michigan: Walter Romig. 
4. ↑ "Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church". www.sjb-parish.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08. 
5. 1 2 "Mark Longe is new head of Utah Catholic Schools - Intermountain Catholic". www.icatholic.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08. 

External links

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City Official Site
• Intermountain Catholic - newspaper of the Diocese of Salt Lake City
• Map of the Diocese of Salt Lake City
• Archdiocese of San Francisco - official site
•  "Diocese of Salt Lake". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. 

Diocese of Salt Lake City Bishops Ordinaries Lawrence Scanlan Joseph Sarsfield Glass John Joseph Mitty James E. Kearney Duane Garrison Hunt Joseph Lennox Federal William Weigand George Hugh Niederauer John Charles Wester Churches Cathedral Cathedral of the Madeleine Parishes St. John the Baptist Church, Salt Lake City St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Park City Education High school Juan Diego Catholic High School, Draper Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City St. Joseph Catholic High School, Ogden Priests Robert Joseph Dwyer Miscellany Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity Skaggs Catholic Center Catholicism Portal

Coordinates: 40°45′00″N 111°52′59″W / 40.7500°N 111.8830°W / 40.7500; -111.8830