Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown

Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown Dioecesis Altunensis-Johnstoniensis
The coat of arms of the Diocese of Altoona–Johnstown
Location
Country	United States
Territory	Pennsylvania counties of Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clinton, Fulton, Huntingdon and Somerset
Ecclesiastical province	Philadelphia
Statistics
Area	6,674 sq mi (17,290 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2012) 678,000 109,500 (16.2%)
Parishes	88
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	May 30, 1901 Diocese of Altoona October 9, 1957 Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament (Altoona)
Co-cathedral	Cathedral of Saint John Gualbert (Johnstown)
Patron saint	Mary, Mother of the Church
Secular priests	131
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Mark Leonard Bartchak Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown
Metropolitan Archbishop	Charles Joseph Chaput Archbishop of Philadelphia
Emeritus Bishops	Joseph Victor Adamec Bishop Emeritus of Altoona-Johnstown
Map
Website
ajdiocese.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona–Johnstown (Latin: Dioecesis Altunensis-Johnstoniensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Pennsylvania. It was established on May 30, 1901 as the Diocese of Altoona; on October 9, 1957 the name changed to the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. It consists of Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clinton, Fulton, Huntingdon and Somerset Counties. The diocese also sponsors Proclaim!, a weekly Catholic news show, and a weekly live mass from St. John Gaulbert Cathedral in Johnstown.

The seat of the Bishop is in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament.

The bishops of the diocese and their tenures of service:

On March 1, 2016, a Pennsylvania grand jury investigating the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona–Johnstown reported that at least 50 priests and others associated with the church had abused hundreds of children across nearly half a century, and that diocesan leadership actively concealed the abuse. Much of the abuse happened between the 1940s and 1980s, but many of the victims came forward in more recent decades to report the priest to the diocese. While the report suggested that local law enforcement and prosecutors should have been more aggressive in pursuing victims' stories, it says two former bishops were primarily to blame for the decades of concealment: James Hogan, who served from 1966 to 1986 and died in 2005, and Joseph Adamec, who served from 1987 to 2011 and is now retired. Those bishops "took actions that further endangered children as they placed their desire to avoid public scandal over the well-being of innocent children ... Priests were returned to ministry with full knowledge they were child predators."