The Catholic Telegraph
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January 2015 front page
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| Type | Monthly |
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| Format | Tabloid 11×12 in (280×300 mm) |
| Owner(s) | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati |
| Publisher | Most Rev. Dennis Marion Schnurr |
| Editor-in-chief | Stephen Trosley |
| News editor | Eileen Connelly, OSU |
| Founded | October 22, 1831 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 100 E. 8th St. Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 |
| Circulation | 148,000 (as of 2014) |
| Readership | 19,000 online |
| Sister newspapers | Der Wahrheitsfreund (defunct) |
| ISSN | 1073-6689 |
| Website | www |
The Catholic Telegraph is a monthly newspaper published by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati primarily for its 500,000 congregants. The archdiocese covers 19 counties in Ohio, including the Cincinnati and Dayton metropolitan areas. The Telegraph has published continuously since 1831, except for a brief period in 1832, making it the first diocesan newspaper and second oldest Catholic newspaper in the United States. It published weekly until September 2011, when it became a monthly publication.
The Catholic Telegraph was established on October 22, 1831, by Bishop Edward Fenwick, O.P., the Archdiocese's first bishop. Its first editor put the paper on a short hiatus the next fall to care for victims of a cholera outbreak. The paper's use of the word "" predated the invention of the communication device by over a decade. As one of the first Catholic newspapers in the nation, the Telegraph was sold in cities throughout the country's middle section, including Louisville, Kentucky, Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Missouri, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1849–1861, The Catholic Telegraph and Advocate also served as the Diocese of Louisville's official newspaper.
Early in the episcopal reign of John Baptist Purcell, the Telegraph fell into significant financial difficulties. As its closure appeared imminent, large numbers of common Catholics formed the Roman Catholic Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge, with its primary purpose being the rescue of the Telegraph. Their goal being accomplished, the Society's success became famous throughout the American Catholic Church, and a similar organization, patterned after the one in Cincinnati, was established in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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