Los Angeles Archdiocese
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Archdiocese of Los Angeles Archidioecesis Angelorum in California Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States of America |
| Territory | Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties |
| Ecclesiastical province | Los Angeles |
| Metropolitan | Los Angeles, California |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 14,019 km2 (5,413 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 11,816,567 4,263,990 (36.1%) |
| Parishes | 287 |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 1 June 1922 (As Diocese of Los Angeles-San Diego) 11 July 1936 (As Archdiocese of Los Angeles) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels |
| Patron saint | Saint Vibiana, Saint Patrick, Saint Rita, Saint Emidius |
| Secular priests | 590 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Archbishop | José Gómez |
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| www.la-archdiocese.org | |
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles (Latin: Archidioecesis Angelorum in California, Spanish: Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. state of California. Based in Los Angeles, the archdiocese comprises the California counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura. The cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, and its present archbishop is José Horacio Gómez. With approximately five million professing members, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is numerically the single largest diocese in the United States.
The Archbishop of Los Angeles also serves as metropolitan bishop of the suffragan dioceses within the Ecclesiastical Province of Los Angeles, which includes the Dioceses of Fresno, Monterey, Orange, San Bernardino, and San Diego.
Following the establishment of the Spanish missions in California, the diocese of the Two Californias was established on 1840, when Los Angeles region was still part of Mexico. In 1848, the Mexican California was ceded to the United States, and the U.S. portion of the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Monterey. The diocese was renamed the Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles in 1859, and the episcopal see was moved to Los Angeles upon the completion of the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana in 1876. Los Angeles split from Monterey to become the Diocese of Los Angeles-San Diego in 1922. The diocese was split again in 1936 to create the Diocese of San Diego, and the Los Angeles see was elevated to an archdiocese. The archdiocese's present territory was established in 1976, when Orange County was split off to establish the Diocese of Orange.
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