Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the western region of the United States. The archdiocese is comprised of the City of Los Angeles as well as the California counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura. With approximately five million professing members, the archdiocese considers itself the largest diocese in the United States in terms of congregant population.
The see was created as the conjoined Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles on July 7, 1859. It split to become the Diocese of Monterey-Fresno and the Diocese of Los Angeles-San Diego on June 1, 1922. With the exponential growth of the Roman Catholic population in the region, another split was promulgated on July 11, 1936 creating the Diocese of San Diego and the present-day Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
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Archbishop
The archdiocese is led by the prelature of an archbishop, concurrently the pastor of the motherchurch Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The cathedral was dedicated on September 2, 2002 and replaced the former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
The Archbishop of Los Angeles is concurrently the metropolitan bishop of the Province of Los Angeles of the Roman Catholic Church. Its suffragans include the dioceses of Fresno, Monterey in California, Orange in California, San Bernardino, and San Diego. The archbishop historically wielded great administrative powers over the suffragan dioceses. Today, such power is only ceremonial and kept as a tradition.
Ordinaries
Bishops of Monterey-Los Angeles
- Thaddeus Amat y Brusi, 1853 - 1878
- Francisco Mora y Borrell, 1878 - 1896
- George Thomas Montgomery, 1896 - 1902
- Thomas James Conaty, 1903 - 1915
- John Joseph Cantwell, 1917 - 1922
Bishops of Los Angeles-San Diego
Archbishops of Los Angeles
- John Joseph Cantwell, 1936 - 1947
- James Cardinal McIntyre, 1948 - 1970
- Timothy Cardinal Manning, 1970 - 1985
- Roger Cardinal Mahony, 1985 - Present
Events
The L.A. Archdiocese Office of Religious Education produces the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress. The largest annual event of its kind on the United States, with an attendance of approximately 38,000.
See also
- List of the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States
- List of the Roman Catholic cathedrals of the United States
- List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the United States
External link
- Archdiocese of Los Angeles (http://www.la-archdiocese.org)
- Los Angeles Religious Education Congress (http://www.recongress.org)