Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo
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Diocese of Toledo Dioecesis Toletana in America |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Territory | The counties of Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Richland, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, Wood and Wyandot in northwestern Ohio. |
| Ecclesiastical province | Cincinnati |
| Metropolitan | Dennis Marion Schnurr |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 8,222 sq mi (21,290 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2010) 1,461,436 321,516 (22%) |
| Parishes | 123 |
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| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | April 15, 1910 (107 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral |
| Patron saint | Queen of the Most Holy Rosary |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Daniel Edward Thomas |
| Vicar General | Rev. Msgr. William Kubacki |
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| Website | |
| www.toledodiocese.org | |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo (Latin: Dioecesis Toletana in America) is a Roman Catholic diocese covering nineteen counties in northwestern Ohio. It is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The See city for the diocese is Toledo. The eighth and current Bishop of Toledo is Daniel Edward Thomas. Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral is the mother church of the diocese.
Saint Pius X erected the diocese April 15, 1910, in territory taken from the Diocese of Cleveland.
The arms of the See of Toledo are based upon those of Toledo, Spain, which bears a silver tower on a plain red field. By changing the field to one half of blue (dexter) and half of red (sinister) the arms are significantly different from the original, and there is effected, in conjunction with the silver tower, a combination of red, white, and blue—a new and distinctively American Toledo coat. The tower has been marked with a red cross to indicate that the new Toledo is to be ever a Catholic stronghold.
Heraldist Pierre de Chaignon la Rose designed the diocesan arms in 1912. The formal heraldic blazon is Per pale azure and gules, a tower triply-turretted, the central turret the tallest, argent, charged with a cross-humetty of the second.
As of 2005, the Diocese covers 8,222 square miles (21,290 km2) in Williams County, Defiance County, Paulding County, Van Wert County, Fulton County, Henry County, Putnam County, Allen County, Lucas County, Wood County, Hancock County, Ottawa County, Sandusky County, Seneca County, Wyandot County, Crawford County, Erie County, Huron County, and Richland County.
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