Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey

Diocese of Monterey in California Dioecesis Montereyensis in California

Location
Country	United States
Territory	Counties of Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Cruz, California, Region XI, United States
Ecclesiastical province	Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Metropolitan	Monterey, California
Population - Catholics	190,000 (19.9%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	April 27, 1840, reestablished October 6, 1967
Cathedral	Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo
Patron saint	Our Lady of Bethlehem Saint Charles Borromeo
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Richard John Garcia Bishop of Monterey in California
Metropolitan Archbishop	José Gómez Archbishop of Los Angeles
Emeritus Bishops	Sylvester Donovan Ryan
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Website
dioceseofmonterey.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California (Latin: Dioecesis Montereyensis in California) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese in the United States of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Central Coast region of California. It comprises Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Cruz counties.

The diocese is led by an ordinary bishop; the bishop's cathedra is located at the Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo, the mother church of the diocese, in Monterey, California. The diocese serves close to 200,000 Catholics in 46 parishes and 18 schools.

The history of the Catholic Church in Monterey began with the establishment on the shores of Monterey Bay of Mission San Carlos Borromeo in 1770 by Saint Junípero Serra, OFM. Father Serra moved the mission to Carmel the next year, which served as the headquarters of the chain of Spanish missions in California.