Resurrection Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin
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Diocese of Madison Dioecesis Madisonensis |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Territory | Counties of Columbia, Dane, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, LaFayette, Marquette, Rock and Sauk, Wisconsin |
| Ecclesiastical province | Milwaukee |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 8,070 sq mi (20,900 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2004) 947,699 269,556 (28.4%) |
| Parishes | 104 |
| Schools | 46 |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | January 9, 1946 (71 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Saint Raphael's Cathedral |
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| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Robert C. Morlino |
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| www.madisondiocese.org | |
The Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin, (Latin: Dioecesis Madisonensis) is the Roman Catholic diocese for the southwest corner of Wisconsin. It comprises Columbia, Dane, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, LaFayette, Marquette, Rock, and Sauk counties. The area of the diocese is approximately 8,070 square miles (20,900 km2). The Metropolitan for the diocese is the Archbishop of Milwaukee. There are about 270,000 Catholics in the Diocese. The bishop of the diocese is Robert C. Morlino.
There are 104 parishes in the diocese, with approximately 98 priests in active ministry. Under Morlino's leadership, the number of seminarians in the diocese has grown from six men in 2003, when Morlino took over, to 30 in 2015. A diocesan-wide capital campaign was initiated to raise $30 million to help educate the future priests.
Saint Raphael's Cathedral in Madison, destroyed by fire in 2005, had been the cathedral for the diocese. The diocese currently has no cathedral. Members of the Cathedral Parish worship at St. Patrick's and Holy Redeemer in Downtown Madison.
Camp Gray, a summer camp and retreat center, is one of the ministries of the Diocese of Madison.
The Madison Diocese was established on January 9, 1946, by Pope Pius XII, in a decree dated December 22, 1945. The diocese was created out of territory from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the Diocese of La Crosse and the Diocese of Green Bay.
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