Diocese of Sacramento Dioecesis Sacramentensis |
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The coat of arms of the diocese
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Yolo, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, El Dorado, and Amador counties in Northern California |
Ecclesiastical province | San Francisco |
Statistics | |
Area | 110,325 km2 (42,597 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2014) 3,550,864 987,727 (27.8%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Latin |
Established | 1886 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament |
Patron saint | Our Lady of Guadalupe, Saint Patrick |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Jaime Soto |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Salvatore J. Cordileone |
Auxiliary Bishops | Myron Joseph Cotta |
Map | |
Website | |
diocese-sacramento.org |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento is an ecclesiastical territory or particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. It comprises the counties of Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Yolo, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, El Dorado, and Amador, and is headquartered in Sacramento, California. Also known as the See of Sacramento, it is led by a bishop who pastors the mother church of the diocese, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. Originally a major part of the defunct Grass Valley Diocese (which included several counties in northern California and Nevada), the present-day diocese was established by Pope Leo XIII on May 28, 1886.