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Roman Catholic Diocese of Indianapolis

Archdiocese of Indianapolis
Archidioecesis Indianapolitana
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis.svg
Location
Country United States
Territory Central Indiana
Ecclesiastical province Indianapolis
Statistics
Area 13,815 sq mi (35,780 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2010)
2,573,000
244,000 (9.5%)
Parishes 133
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established May 6, 1834 (182 years ago)
Cathedral Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Indianapolis
Patron saint Saint Francis Xavier
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop sede vacante
Emeritus Bishops Daniel M. Buechlein
Map
Archdiocese of Indianapolis map 1.png
Website
www.archindy.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis is a division of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. When it was originally erected as the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana, on May 6, 1834, it encompassed all of Indiana as well as the eastern third of Illinois. It was renamed the Diocese of Indianapolis on March 28, 1898. Bishop Francis Silas Chatard, who had been living in Indianapolis since 1878 when he was appointed Bishop of Vincennes, became the first Bishop of Indianapolis. It was elevated from a diocese to a metropolitan archdiocese on October 21, 1944.

Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, OSB, in September 2011, due to illness. Auxiliary Bishop Christopher J. Coyne served as the Apostolic Administrator until the Pope's appointment of Joseph William Tobin on October 16, 2012. Per the 2000 census, the archdiocese contained 2,430,606 people, 233,273 of whom were Catholic. The archdiocese covers 39 counties in central and southern Indiana, with a total area of 13,757 square miles. It was announced on October 9, 2016, that Tobin would be elevated to the cardinalate on November 19, 2016, becoming the first Archbishop to serve as Cardinal-Archbishop of the Archdiocese. On November 7, 2016, it was announced that Tobin was now Archbishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

The archdiocese is normally headed by an archbishop, but the see was vacant, due to the resignation in September 2011 of Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, OSB, on account of illness due to ongoing issues with cancer. Auxiliary Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, who was ordained a bishop in March 2011, became the apostolic administrator, pending the installation of a new archbishop. In October 2012, Joseph William Tobin was appointed as the archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI. He was officially installed December 3, 2012.


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