Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester
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Diocese of Rochester Dioecesis Roffensis |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Territory | Counties of Monroe, Cayuga, Livingston, Wayne, Tioga, Tompkins, Ontario, Seneca, Schuyler, Yates, Steuben and Chemung, New York |
| Ecclesiastical province | Archdiocese of New York |
| Metropolitan | 1150 Buffalo Road Rochester, New York 14624 |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 8,772 sq mi (22,720 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2014) 1,570,000 350,000 (23%%) |
| Parishes | 106 |
| Churches | 172 |
| Congregations | 172 |
| Schools | 27 |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | March 3, 1868 |
| Cathedral | Sacred Heart Cathedral |
| Patron saint | St. John Fisher |
| Secular priests | 251 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Salvatore Ronald Matano |
| Metropolitan Archbishop |
Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan Archbishop of New York |
| Vicar General | Very Rev. Paul J. Tomasso |
| Emeritus Bishops | Matthew H. Clark |
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the Greater Rochester region of New York State in the United States. The region that the Diocese comprises extends from its northern border on the south shore of Lake Ontario through the Finger Lakes region to its southern border at the New York-Pennsylvania border.
The Diocese of Rochester comprises 12 counties in New York, with approximately 350,000 Catholics and over 125 faith communities (parishes and chapels), 22 diocesan elementary schools and 7 independent parochial high schools. The metropolitan for the diocese is the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, currently Timothy Cardinal Dolan. The cathedral parish for the diocese is Sacred Heart Cathedral.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester began on March 3, 1868, when Pope Pius IX entrusted eight counties (Monroe, Livingston, Wayne, Ontario, Seneca, Cayuga, Yates, and Tompkins) within the Diocese of Buffalo to Bernard J. McQuaid, the first bishop of Rochester. The new diocese had about 54,500 Catholics in 35 parish churches and 29 mission churches.
In 1896, the counties of Schuyler, Tioga, Chemung, and Steuben were added to the Diocese of Rochester from the Diocese of Buffalo, forming the current boundaries.
The diocese grew as Catholic immigrants came to western New York, peaking in the 1960s. Since then, the Catholic population has stabilized while the numbers of ordained presbyters (priests) and women religious (sisters) has fallen.
The following are lists of bishops and their years of service:
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