Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego
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Diocese of San Diego Dioecesis Sancti Didaci Diócesis de San Diego |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Territory | Counties of San Diego, Imperial |
| Ecclesiastical province | Province of Los Angeles |
| Metropolitan | San Diego, California |
| Statistics | |
| Population - Catholics |
1,002,223 |
| Parishes | 98 |
| Schools | 89 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | July 11, 1936 |
| Cathedral | St. Joseph Cathedral |
| Patron saint | St. Didacus of Alcalá |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Robert W. McElroy |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | José Gómez |
| Vicar General | Msgr. Steven Callahan |
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| diocese-sdiego.org | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego is a particular church of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in the western region of the United States. Its ecclesiastic territory includes all of San Diego and Imperial Counties in Southern California, with a Catholic population of approximately 1 million. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
On January 4, 2012, Bishop Cirilo Flores was appointed as coadjutor bishop with immediate right of succession to Bishop Robert Henry Brom, then already 75, who had served since January 1990. Bishop Brom had submitted his resignation when he turned 75, as all Roman Catholic bishops must, and Pope Francis accepted it on September 18, 2013, making Coadjutor Bishop Flores the Bishop of San Diego. Bishop Flores died on September 6, 2014 after a stroke and a battle with cancer. In March 2015, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Robert McElroy as the bishop of the diocese.
There are 233 priests, 118 active (not retired) deacons, 213 religious sisters and 30 religious brothers in the diocese.
The first Roman Catholic churches in the current territory of the Diocese of San Diego were two of the twenty-one "California Missions" (Mission San Diego de Alcala and Mission San Luis Rey de Francia). The area was first included in a diocese in 1840, with the creation of the Diocese of Both Californias (serving the entirety of the Mexican colonial provinces of Baja California and Alta California). After the conquest of Alta California by the United States, that diocese was divided, with the American portion becoming the Diocese of Monterey, later renamed the Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles. In 1922, the diocese was again divided, with the southern portion becoming the Diocese of Los Angeles-San Diego.
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