Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle
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Archdiocese of Seattle Archidioecesis Seattlensis |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Territory | Western Washington |
| Ecclesiastical province | Archdiocese of Seattle |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 64,269 km2 (24,814 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 5,299,770 990,000 (18.7%) |
| Parishes | 134 |
| Churches | 160 |
| Members | 975606 |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | May 31, 1850 (as Diocese of Nesqually) Elevated to Archdiocese June 23, 1951 |
| Cathedral | St. James Cathedral |
| Patron saint | St. James the Greater |
| Secular priests | 111 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Archbishop | J. Peter Sartain |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Eusebio L. Elizondo Almaguer |
| Emeritus Bishops |
Raymond Hunthausen Alexander Joseph Brunett |
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| Website | |
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The Archdiocese of Seattle is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. state of Washington. Headquartered in Seattle, the archdiocese encompasses all counties in the state west of the Cascade Range. Its cathedral is St. James Cathedral, and its present archbishop is J. Peter Sartain.
The archdiocese was established in 1850 as the Diocese of Nesqually, headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, as a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Oregon City. In 1903, the episcopal see was moved to Seattle, and the diocese's name was changed to Diocese of Seattle in 1907. The diocese was elevated to archdiocese status in 1951.
The Archbishop of Seattle concurrently serves as metropolitan bishop of the suffragan dioceses within the Ecclesiastical Province of Seattle, which includes the Dioceses of Spokane and Yakima, both of which were carved out of the Archdiocese of Seattle territory in 1913 and 1951, respectively. Together the three dioceses cover the entire state of Washington.
Today the archdiocese has 144 parishes, 16 high schools, and 2 colleges, and has a Catholic population of 972,000.
The Catholic Church presence in the present-day state of Washington dates to the 1830s, when missionary priests François Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers traveled from Quebec and arrived in what was then known as the Oregon Country. On December 1, 1843, the Holy See established the Vicariate Apostolic of the Oregon Territory and named Blanchet its vicar apostolic. In 1846 Pope Gregory XVI established an ecclesiastical territory in the region, and the apostolic vicariate was split into three dioceses: Oregon City with François Blanchet as bishop; Vancouver Island, with Demers as bishop; and Walla Walla, with François Blanchet's brother, Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, as bishop.
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