Diocese of Raleigh

Diocese of Raleigh Dioecesis Raleighiensis
The coat of arms of the diocese
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Eastern half of North Carolina
Ecclesiastical province	Atlanta
Metropolitan	Atlanta
Statistics
Area	31,875 km2 (12,307 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 4,432,901 217,125 (4.9%)
Parishes	78
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	March 3, 1868 (149 years ago)
Cathedral	Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Luis Rafael Zarama
Metropolitan Archbishop	Wilton Daniel Gregory Archbishop of Atlanta
Map
Website
dioceseofraleigh.org

The Diocese of Raleigh is a Roman Catholic diocese that covers the eastern half of the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Atlanta. On July 5, 2017, Pope Francis named Luis Rafael Zarama to be the 6th Bishop of Raleigh; Zarama will be installed on August 29, 2017 at the recently consecrated Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral.

The bishop is seated at Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Basilica Shrine of St. Mary, a minor basilica in Wilmington, was once used as a cathedral for the Carolina areas before the Diocese of Raleigh was founded. The Former Pro-Cathedral of St. Thomas the Apostle, in Wilmington, was secularized. Prior to Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral, Sacred Heart Cathedral served as the cathedral from 1924-2017. Since the dedication of Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral on July 26, 2017, the former Sacred Heart Cathedral has been relegated to a church.

Construction on Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral commenced January 3, 2015. The cathedral was designed by O'Brien and Keane of Arlington, Virginia in the Romanesque Revival style, containing a cruciform floor plan with a dome over the crossing and 42 stained glass windows and Stations of the Cross from closed churches in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The Beyer Studio of Philadelphia restored the windows before they were installed.