Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati

Archdiocese of Cincinnati Archidioecesis Cincinnatensis
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Location
Country	United States
Territory	Southwestern and Western Ohio, including the cities of Cincinnati, Dayton, Springfield, and Hamilton
Ecclesiastical province	Cincinnati
Statistics
Area	8,543 sq mi (22,130 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 3,074,000 471,457 (15.3%)
Parishes	214[1]
Schools	115[2]
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	June 19, 1821 (194 years ago)
Cathedral	Saint Peter in Chains Cathedral
Patron saint	St. Francis de Sales
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Dennis Marion Schnurr
Auxiliary Bishops	Joseph R. Binzer
Emeritus Bishops	Daniel Edward Pilarczyk
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Website
www.catholiccincinnati.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati (Latin: Archidioecesis Cincinnatensis) covers the southwest region of the U.S. state of Ohio, including the greater Cincinnati and Dayton metropolitan areas. The Archbishop of Cincinnati is Most Rev. Dennis Marion Schnurr.

Geography

St. Peter in Chains Cathedral in Downtown Cincinnati

Province of Cincinnati

In total, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati encompasses 230 parishes in 19 counties, as of 2005, with the total membership of baptized Catholics around 500,000.^[3] The Archdiocese administers 110 associated parochial schools and diocesan elementary schools. Its mother church is the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains, located at the corner of 8th and Plum Streets in Downtown Cincinnati.

Cincinnati is the metropolis of the Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati, which encompasses the entire state of Ohio and is composed of the Archdiocese and its five suffragan dioceses: Cleveland, Columbus, Steubenville, Toledo, and Youngstown.

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati is bordered by the Diocese of Toledo to the north, the Diocese of Columbus to the east, the Diocese of Covington to the south, and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Diocese of Lafayette to the west.

History

The Diocese of Cincinnati was erected on 19 June 1821 by Pope Pius VII from territory taken from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bardstown. At the time there was an unwritten prohibition against the building of Catholic churches in Cincinnati.^[4] The first church was therefore constructed just outside its boundaries. The diocese lost territory on 8 March 1833 when Pope Gregory XVI erected the Diocese of Detroit and again on 23 April 1847 when Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Cleveland.

On July 19, 1850, Pope Pius IX elevated the diocese to an Archdiocese. On March 3, 1868 the archdiocese lost territory when His Holiness erected the Diocese of Columbus.

In November 2003, following a sexual abuse scandal and two-year investigation by the Hamilton County prosecutor's office, Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk entered a plea of nolo contendere regarding five misdemeanor charges of failure to report allegations of child molestation.^[5] No criminal judgment was rendered on the allegations themselves, only on the diocese's failure to report the allegations.

Bishops and Archbishops

The following is a list of the Ordinaries of Cincinnati (years of service in parentheses):

1. Edward Fenwick, O.P. (1822–1833) died
2. John Baptist Purcell (1833–1883) died
3. William Henry Elder (1883–1903) died
4. Henry K. Moeller (1903–1925) died
5. John Timothy McNicholas O.P. (1925–1950) died
6. Karl Joseph Alter (1950–1969) retired
7. Paul Francis Leibold (1969–1972) died
8. Joseph Bernardin (1972–1982) appointed Archbishop of Chicago, and elevated to Cardinal in 1983
9. Daniel Edward Pilarczyk (1982–2009) retired
10. Dennis Marion Schnurr (2009–present)

Auxiliary Bishops

1. Sylvester Horton Rosecrans (1861–1868) appointed Bishop of Columbus
2. William Henry Elder (Coadjutor 1880–1883) succeeded
3. Henry Moeller (Coadjutor 1903–1904) succeeded
4. Joseph H. Albers (1929–1937) appointed Bishop of Lansing
5. George John Rehring (1937–1950) appointed Bishop of Toledo
6. Paul Francis Leibold (1958–1966) appointed Bishop of Evansville
7. Edward Anthony McCarthy (1965–1969) appointed Bishop of Phoenix
8. Nicholas Thomas Elko (Archbishop ad personam 1971–1985) retired as Bishop emeritus of Pittsburgh (Ruthenian)
9. Daniel Edward Pilarczyk (1974–1982) appointed Archbishop of Cincinnati
10. James Henry Garland (1984–1992) appointed Bishop of Marquette
11. Carl Kevin Moeddel (1993–2007) retired
12. Dennis Marion Schnurr (Coadjutor 2008–2009) appointed Archbishop of Cincinnati
13. Joseph R. Binzer (2011–present)

Affiliated Bishops

The following men began their service as priests in Cincinnati before being appointed bishops elsewhere (years in parentheses refer to their years in Cincinnati):

• John Martin Henni, Archbishop of Milwaukee (1829–1843)
• Clarence George Issenmann, Bishop of Cleveland (1932–1954)
• Henry Damian Juncker, Bishop of Alton (1834–1857)
• Joshua Maria Young, Bishop of Erie (1838–1853)
• John Baptist Lamy, Archbishop of Santa Fe (1838–1850)
• James Frederick Bryan Wood, Archbishop of Philadelphia (1844–1857)
• John Henry Luers, Bishop of Fort Wayne (1846–1857)
• Caspar Henry Borgess, Bishop of Detroit (1848–1870)
• Richard Gilmour, Bishop of Cleveland (1852–1872)
• John Quinlan, Bishop of Mobile (1852–1859)
• Augustus Maria Bernard Anthony John Gebhard Toebbe, Bishop of Covington (1854–1869)
• Joseph Gregory Dwenger, Bishop of Fort Wayne (1859-1867)
• Henry Richter, Bishop of Grand Rapids (1865–1883)
• Francis Beckman, Archbishop of Dubuque(1902–1923)
• Urban John Vehr, Archbishop of Denver (1915–1931)
• Francis Augustine Thill, Bishop of Salina (1920–1938)
• Anthony John King Mussio, Bishop of Steubenville (1935–1945)
• John Joseph Kaising, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Ordinariate (1962–2000)
• Robert Daniel Conlon, Bishop of Steubenville (1977–2002)
• Michael William Warfel, Bishop of Juneau (1980–1996)

Education

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati operates a large school system that is especially well-attended in the Cincinnati area. As of 2011, 43,641 students^[1] enroll in the Archdiocese's 115 schools (ACE Consulting 2011, p. 36),^[2] making it the sixth largest Catholic school system in the United States.^[22] In Hamilton County, where most private schools are run by the Archdiocese, nearly a quarter of students (36,684 as of 2007) attend private schools, a rate only second to St. Louis County, Missouri.^[23]

The 23 Catholic high schools in the region operate under varying degrees of archdiocesan control. Several are owned and operated by the Archdiocese, while other interparochial schools are run by groups of parishes under archdiocesan supervision. Most of the interparochial and non-archdiocesan high schools are operated by religious institutes (as noted in the table to the right).^[20] Most of the schools' athletic teams belong to the Greater Catholic League, which consists of a co-ed division, the Girls Greater Cincinnati League, and a division for all-male schools.^[24]

The Archdiocese also includes 92 parochial and diocesan elementary schools, with a combined enrollment of 30,312, as of 2011 (ACE Consulting 2011, p. 91). These schools can be found in the urban and suburban areas of Cincinnati and Dayton, as well as some of the smaller towns within the Archdiocesan boundaries. Each parochial school is owned and operated by its parish, rather than by the Archdiocese's Catholic Schools Office. However, in March 2011, the Archdiocese announced its intention of eventually unifying the schools under one school system.^[25] As of 2015, the interim Superintendent of Catholic Schools is Susie Gibbons.^[26][27]

Five of the high schools are named after former archbishops of the diocese. A parochial elementary school in Dayton is also named after Archbishop Liebold.

The Archdiocese sponsors the Athenaeum of Ohio – Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West seminary in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati.

Superintendents

• Msgr. Carl J. Ryan (1946–1964)^[28][29]
• Fr. Herman H. Kenning (1970–1974)^[30]
• Sr. Kathryn Ann Connelly, S.C. (1983–2002)^[31][32]
• Bro. Joseph Kamis, SM (2002-2010)^[33]
• Dr. Jim Riggs, Ph.D. (2010–2015)^[34]
• Ms. Susie Gibbons (2015–present) Interim^[35]

Media

Newspapers

The Archdiocese is served by The Catholic Telegraph, the diocesan newspaper, which is described on its website as the United States' oldest continuously published Catholic diocesan newspaper. Its defunct sister newspaper, Der Wahrheitsfreund, was the first German Catholic newspaper in the country.

Radio stations

Several area Catholic radio stations, owned by separate entities, serve the Archdiocese:

• WNOP 740 AM Licensed to Newport, Kentucky. "Sacred Heart Radio" plus a sister station
• WHSS 89.5 FM in Hamilton, a repeater of WNOP.
• WULM 1600 AM located in Springfield "Radio Maria" (based at KJMJ in Alexandria, Louisiana)serving portions of the Dayton area...a fifty mile radius in the daytime. (ten mile radius at night)plus a sister station:
• WHJM 88.7 FM licensed in Anna, transmitting from Botkins with a live studio located in nearby Minster which serves a forty mile radius within the Upper Miami Valley and southern portions of the Lima area.Radio Maria also streams on the internet
• WLRU-LP 106.9 FM in Hillsboro.

Other stations reach into portions of the Archdiocese:

• WVSG 820 AM located in Columbus "St. Gabriel Radio" (the former WOSU (AM).
• WRDF 106.3 FM licensed in Columbia City, Indiana with studio in Fort Wayne as "Redeemer Radio" which can be heard in portions of the northwestern corner of the Archdiocese, plus an audiostream.

Notes

References

• "Initial Assessment Report" (PDF). Lighting the Way: A Vision for Catholic School Education for Catholic Schools. ACE Consulting, University of Notre Dame. 2011-09-13. Retrieved 2011-10-28. 

External links

• Archdiocese of Cincinnati Official Site

Archdiocese of Cincinnati Ordinaries of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Bishop Edward Fenwick Archbishops John Baptist Purcell William Henry Elder Henry K. Moeller John T. McNicholas Karl Joseph Alter Paul Francis Leibold Joseph Bernardin Daniel Edward Pilarczyk Dennis Marion Schnurr Churches in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Cathedral Saint Peter in Chains Cathedral Parishes Cincinnati Church of the Annunciation Immaculata Church Old St. Mary's Church St. Francis De Sales Church Saint Francis Seraph Church St. Francis Xavier Church St. Lawrence Church St. Pius X Church St. Rose Church Dayton Holy Cross Church Sacred Heart Church St. Adalbert Church St. Mary's Church Springfield St. Joseph's Church St. Raphael's Church Other Immaculate Conception Church, Botkins St. Aloysius Church, Carthagena Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Cassella Immaculate Conception Church, Celina Precious Blood Church, Chickasaw St. Joseph's Church, Egypt Holy Family Church, Frenchtown St. John's Church, Fryburg St. Patrick's Church, Glynwood St. John the Baptist Church, Maria Stein Sacred Heart Church, McCartyville St. Michael's Church, Mechanicsburg St. Augustine's Church, Minster St. Louis Church, North Star St. Nicholas Church, Osgood St. Anthony's Church, Padua St. Remy's Church, Russia St. Henry's Church, St. Henry Holy Rosary Church, St. Marys St. Rose's Church, St. Rose St. Sebastian's Church, Sebastian St. Joseph's Church, Wapakoneta Former parishes All Saints Church, Cincinnati Holy Trinity Church, Cincinnati St. Augustine Church, Cincinnati St. George's Church, Cincinnati St. Michael the Archangel Church, Cincinnati St. Paul Church, Cincinnati St. Philomena's Church, Cincinnati St. Patrick's Church, St. Patrick Shrine Shrine of the Holy Relics Education in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Higher education Chatfield College University of Dayton Edgecliff College Mount St. Joseph University Xavier University Seminary Athenaeum of Ohio – Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West High schools Cincinnati DePaul Cristo Rey High School Elder High School La Salle High School McAuley High School Archbishop McNicholas High School Mother of Mercy High School Purcell Marian High School Seton High School St. Ursula Academy St. Xavier High School Summit Country Day School Ursuline Academy Dayton Carroll High School Chaminade-Julienne High School Other Archbishop Alter High School, Kettering Father Stephen T. Badin High School, Hamilton Catholic Central School, Springfield Bishop Fenwick High School, Franklin Lehman Catholic High School, Sidney Moeller High School, Kenwood Mount Notre Dame High School, Reading Royalmont Academy, Mason Roger Bacon High School, St. Bernard St. Rita School for the Deaf, Evendale Clergy of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Auxiliary bishops Sylvester Horton Rosecrans Joseph H. Albers George John Rehring Paul Francis Leibold Edward A. McCarthy Nicholas Elko Daniel Edward Pilarczyk James Henry Garland Carl K. Moeddel Joseph R. Binzer Priests John Martin Henni Edward Fitzgerald Clarence George Issenmann Henry Damian Juncker Joshua Maria Young John Baptist Lamy James Frederick Wood John Henry Luers Caspar Henry Borgess Richard Gilmour John Quinlan Augustus Toebbe Joseph Gregory Dwenger Henry Richter Francis Beckman Urban John Vehr Francis Augustine Thill Anthony John King Mussio John Joseph Kaising Robert Daniel Conlon Michael William Warfel Miscellany The Catholic Telegraph Der Wahrheitsfreund Former St. Charles Seminary Gruenwald Convent Minster Elementary School St. John Cemetery, Cincinnati New St. Joseph Cemetery, Cincinnati Old St. Joseph's Cemetery, Cincinnati Catholicism Portal Cincinnati Portal

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