Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas

Diocese of Little Rock Dioecesis Petriculana
The coat of arms of the Diocese of Little Rock
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Arkansas
Ecclesiastical province	Archdiocese of Oklahoma City
Population - Catholics	122,842 (4.1%)
Information
Denomination	Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	28 November 1843
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. Andrew
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Anthony Taylor Bishop of Little Rock
Metropolitan Archbishop	Paul Stagg Coakley Archbishop of Oklahoma City
Map
Website
dolr.org

Paul Stagg Coakley

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock (Latin: Dioecesis Petriculana) is a Roman Catholic diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Oklahoma City located in the US state of Arkansas. It was established on November 28, 1843. The seat of the diocese is the Cathedral of St. Andrew.

The following are lists of ordinaries and their years of service:

In 2013 there were 6,913 students in Catholic schools in Arkansas. In the 1960s there were 11,500 students in Arkansas Catholic schools; this was the peak enrollment. During that decade, ten of the Catholic schools in Arkansas were for black people. None of those schools remained open by 2013.

High schools and schools with high school sections:

Grade schools include:

Schools with high school sections:

Schools without high school sections:

On September 28, 2007, Msgr. J. Gaston Hebert, the diocese administrator (per the July 11 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) stated that 6 Arkansas nuns were excommunicated for heresy (the first in the diocese's 165-year history). They refused to recant the doctrines of the Community of the Lady of All Nations (Army of Mary). The 6 nuns are members of the Good Shepherd Monastery of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge in Hot Springs. Sister Mary Theresa Dionne, 82, one of the 6, said they will still live at the convent property, which they own. The sect believed that its 86-year-old founder, Marie Paule Giguere, is the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary.