Diocese of Cleveland

Diocese of Cleveland Dioecesis Clevelandensis

Location
Country	United States
Territory	The counties of Ashland, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Summit and Wayne in northeastern Ohio.
Ecclesiastical province	Cincinnati
Metropolitan	Cincinnati
Statistics
Area	3,414 sq mi (8,840 km²)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2006) 2,852,022 797,898 (28%)
Parishes	185
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	April 23, 1847 (169 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
Patron saint	St. John the Evangelist
Current leadership
Pope	His Holiness Francis
Bishop	Sede vacante
Metropolitan Archbishop	Dennis Marion Schnurr
Apostolic Administrator	Daniel Edward Thomas, Bishop of the Diocese of Toledo
Vicar General	Donald Oleksiak
Emeritus Bishops	Richard Gerard Lennon (Bishop Emeritus) Anthony Michael Pilla (Bishop Emeritus) Roger William Gries O.S.B. (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus)
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Website
www.dioceseofcleveland.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland (Latin: Dioecesis Clevelandensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Ohio. Pope Pius IX erected the diocese April 23, 1847 in territory taken from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The diocese lost territory in 1910 when Pope Pius X erected the Diocese of Toledo, and in 1943 when Pope Pius XII erected the Diocese of Youngstown. It is currently the seventeenth largest diocese in the United States by population, encompassing the counties of Ashland, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Summit, and Wayne.

As of 2014, the Diocese had a population of approximately 692,600 Catholics and contained 185 parishes, 22 Catholic high schools, three Catholic hospitals, three universities, two shrines (St. Paul Shrine Church and St. Stanislaus Church), and two seminaries (Centers for Pastoral Leadership). The diocese's cathedral is the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, located in downtown Cleveland. It also had 274 active priests and 924 nuns in the diocese.