Archdiocese of Dubuque Archidioecesis Dubuquensis |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | 30 counties in Northeastern Iowa |
Ecclesiastical province | Dubuque |
Coordinates | 42°29′06″N 90°40′31″W / 42.48500°N 90.67528°WCoordinates: 42°29′06″N 90°40′31″W / 42.48500°N 90.67528°W |
Statistics | |
Area | 17,400 sq mi (45,000 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 998,638 200,588 (20.1%) |
Parishes | 167 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | July 28, 1837 (180 years ago) |
Cathedral | St. Raphael's Cathedral |
Patron saint |
St. Raphael St. John Vianney |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Michael Owen Jackels |
Emeritus Bishops |
Daniel Kucera, O.S.B. Jerome Hanus, O.S.B. |
Map | |
Website | |
dbqarch.org |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque (Latin: Archidioecesis Dubuquensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the northeastern quarter of the state of Iowa in the United States. It includes all the Iowa counties north of Polk, Jasper, Poweshiek, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar, and Clinton counties, and east of Kossuth, Humboldt, Webster and Boone counties. The Archdiocese has an area of about 17,400 square miles (45,000 km2).
The seat of the Archdiocese is St. Raphael's Cathedral in the city of Dubuque, named in honor of the Archangel Raphael.
The twelfth and current Archbishop is Michael Owen Jackels. Jackels completed a Doctorate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome in 1989. On 4 April 2005, he was consecrated bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wichita, USA.