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The Archdiocese of Chicago ( Latin: Archidiœcesis Chicagiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, an archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Northeastern Illinois, in the United States. It was established as a diocese in 1843 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1880.
The Catholic Church of Chicago, 1876. This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.The archdiocese covers Cook and Lake Counties and is organized for administrative purposes into six vicariates as follows:
Feb 7, 2020 · The Archdiocese of Chicago has announced another round of parish mergers that will close more than a dozen parishes across Chicagoland. In total, the archdiocese announced 23 parishes would be cons…
In 1880 Rome designated the Diocese of Chicago an archdiocese, raising it to preeminence among all dioceses in the region and establishing its bishop as an archbishop. Ethnic Expansion: 1879–1915. Two bishops presided over this era of recovery and growth, Patrick A. Feehan and James Edward Quigley. The matrix of Catholic development in this ...
Cardinal Cupich was appointed Archbishop of Chicago by Pope Francis on September 20, 2014 and installed as the ninth Archbishop of Chicago on November 18, 2014. On October 9, 2016, Pope Francis named him a Cardinal and he was elevated to the College of Cardinals in a consistory on November 19, 2016, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
Nov 13, 2014 · The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago was established in 1880, with Archbishop Patrick Augustine Feehan becoming the first in a short line of archbishops and cardinals in Chicago. The first archbishop to be elevated to cardinal was George Mundelein in 1924. Ninety years later, Cardinal Francis George stepped down as head of the archdiocese and Blase Cupich was appointed his successor Nov ...
The Archdiocese of Chicago is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, an archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Northeastern Illinois, in the United States. It was established as a diocese in 1843 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1880. It serves the more than 2 million Catholics in Cook and Lake counties in the state of Illinois, an area of 1,411 square miles (3,650 km2). The ...
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