Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento
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The Diocese of Sacramento (Latin: Diœcesis Sacramentensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Francisco.
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Diocese of Sacramento Diœcesis Sacramentensis Diócesis de Sacramento | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Yolo, Placer, Solano, Sacramento, El Dorado, and Amador counties in Northern California |
Ecclesiastical province | San Francisco |
Coordinates | 38.5589°N 121.4857°W / 38.5589; -121.4857 |
Statistics | |
Area | 110,325 km2 (42,597 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2014) 3,550,864 987,727 (27.8%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 1886 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament |
Patron saint | Our Lady of Guadalupe, Saint Patrick[1] |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Jaime Soto |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Salvatore J. Cordileone |
Auxiliary Bishops | Reynaldo Bersabal (Elect) |
Bishops emeritus | William Weigand |
Map | |
Website | |
scd.org |
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The mother church of the Diocese of Sacramento is the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento. The diocese was established by Pope Leo XIII on May 28, 1886. The current bishop, as of 2023, is Jaime Soto.[2]