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The Archdiocese of Washington ( Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Vashingtonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States. The Archdiocese of Washington is home to the Catholic University of America [6] and Georgetown ...
Prior to the establishment of the diocese, the following hierarchs were auxiliary bishops of Washington, DC, with simultaneous responsibilities elsewhere: His Grace, Bishop Jonah (Stahlberg), first Orthodox bishop of Washington, DC (1951-5). Bishop Jonah (Stahlberg) 1951-5 Bishop Kiprian (Borisevich) 1961-4 Bishop Theodosius (Lazor) 1967
Archbishop of Washington. He was installed on June 22, 2006. Known nationally for his catechetical and teaching ministry and for his efforts to strengthen Catholic education, he is active in the community, joining with civic and business leaders to promote education, service to the poor, pastoral assistance to refugees and immigrants, as
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The capital city of the new United States of America, the District of Columbia, was established in 1790 by an act of Congress, with land from the estates of sixteen Maryland landowners, six of them Catholics. George Washington appointed Catholic Daniel Carroll of Rock Creek one of the three commissioners of the city-to-be.
The Archdiocese of Washington marked its 75th anniversary in 2014, with Cardinal Wuerl convoking the first Archdiocesan Synod. The statutes and recommendations produced through the Synod preparatory process and presented at the Synod were based on more than 15,000 suggestions collected from the faithful across the archdiocese.
He said Holy Rosary’s first Mass on the Third Sunday of Advent, December 14, 1913, at 10:30 A.M. The next year, while raising money for a church, he rented a larger residence at 902 Third Street NW. He soon received help from the wealthy and devout friends of Apostolic Delegate Giovanni Bonzano (1912 to 1922), Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Brady.
Syro-Malankara Catholic Washington D.C. Parish History In 1985, His Grace, Rev. Most Rev. Benedict Mar Gregorios, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Trivandrum during his visit to His Eminence Most. Rev. James Cardinal Hickey, then Archbishop of Washington, expressed his desire to have Malankara Catholic liturgical services for the newly emigrated faithful of the Malankara community in the ...
