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Immaculate Heart Of Mary Seminary (Winona, Minnesota)
Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) Seminary is a Roman Catholic, Diocesan-sponsored college seminary in Winona, Minnesota. Located adjacent to the campus of Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, IHM Seminary has provided college-level seminary training since 1948. Seminarians from various dioceses across the United States live at IHM Seminary and take classes from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. While the current bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, the Most Reverend Robert E. Barron, is the president of the advisory board, the rector of the seminary oversees the day-to-day activities. History The early years In 1912, Bishop Patrick Richard Heffron of the Diocese of Winona, founded Saint Mary's College (now Saint Mary's University) on the terraced heights of Winona's Gilmore valley. Bishop Heffron founded the all-male college just two years after being ordained the second bishop of the Winona Diocese. Saint Mary's was founded for the higher education of all young men ...
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Diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the Roman diocese, diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek language, Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into Roman diocese, dioceses based on the Roman diocese, civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the Roman province, provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's State church of the Roman Empire, official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine the Great, Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situ ...
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Seat Of Wisdom
Seat of Wisdom or Throne of Wisdom (Latin: ''sedes sapientiae'') is one of many devotional titles for Mary in Roman Catholic tradition. In Seat of Wisdom icons and sculptures, Mary is seated on a throne with the Christ Child on her lap. For the more domestic and intimate iconic representations of Mary with the infant Jesus on her lap, see Madonna and Child. The Roman Catholic Church honors Mary, Seat of Wisdom, with a feast day on June 8. The title and the imagery associated with it are occasionally also found in Protestant tradition; for example Merton College, Oxford commissioned a statue of "Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom" for its chapel in 2014. History The invocation, "Seat of Wisdom", originated in the eleventh century. It later became part of the Litany of Loreto. In art This type of Madonna image is based on the Byzantine prototype of the ''Chora tou Achoretou'' ("Container of the Uncontainable"), an epithet mentioned in the Acathist Hymn and present in the Greek East by ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Sioux City
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City ( la, Diœcesis Siopolitanensis) is the Roman Catholic diocese for the northwestern quarter of the state of Iowa in the United States. It is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. The cathedral parish for this diocese is the Epiphany and the see city is Sioux City. The Diocese of Sioux City comprises 24 counties in northwestern Iowa, covering . Reverend R. Walker Nickless was ordained as bishop of Sioux City on January 20, 2006. History 1830 to 1920 The first Catholic missionaries arrived in the Iowa area during the early 1830's. They were under the supervision of the Diocese of St. Louis. In 1837, the Vatican erected the Diocese of Dubuque, covering Iowa and adjoining territories. In the late 19th century, Bishop John Hennessy of the Diocese of Dubuque requested that the Vatican divide the state into two dioceses, with the new diocese covering the lower half of Iowa. Hennessy suggested that the see of the new diocese be ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Duluth
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Duluth ( la, Dioecesis Duluthensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Minnesota. The episcopal see is in Duluth, Minnesota. The diocese includes Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Pine and St. Louis Counties. History The diocese was established on October 3, 1889 by Pope Leo XIII. Its territory was taken from the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Minnesota. In 2020, Michel Mulloy, a priest of the Diocese of Rapid City, was appointed Bishop of Duluth but resigned the appointment before it took effect due to allegations that he sexually abused a minor. Sex abuse and bankruptcy The Diocese of Duluth filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on December 7, 2015 after facing a nearly $5 million verdict, six lawsuits and a dozen additional claims stemming from child sexual abuse cases. In May 2019, the Diocese of Duluth agreed to pay $40 million to 125 plaintiffs suing the Diocese for allowing 37 priests to sexually abu ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Winona
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Sioux Falls
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls ( la, Dioecesis Siouxormensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S. state of South Dakota. It comprises that part of South Dakota east of the Missouri River. It is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. The See city for the diocese is Sioux Falls. The cathedral parish is St. Joseph Cathedral. History On August 12, 1879 Pope Leo XIII established the Vicariate Apostolic of Dakota from territory taken from the Diocese of Saint Paul, Minnesota. It lost territory on November 10, 1889 when the Diocese of Jamestown was established in North Dakota. Two days later on November 12 the Diocese of Sioux Falls was established and the vicariate was suppressed. The diocese lost territory in 1902 when the Diocese of Lead was established in South Dakota west of the Missouri River. The architect for the St. Joseph Cathedral was Emmanuel Louis Masqueray. Abuse cases in Catholic institutions in South Dakota Beginni ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Saint Cloud
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud ( la, Dioecesis Sancti Clodoaldi) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Minnesota, United States. This diocese covers Benton, Douglas, Grant, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Otter Tail, Pope, Sherburne, Stearns, Stevens, Todd, Traverse, Wadena, and Wilkin counties. It is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Its See city is Saint Cloud. The cathedral parish is the Cathedral of St. Mary. On September 20, 2013, Pope Francis named Donald Joseph Kettler bishop. History On February 12, 1875 Pope Pius IX established the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Minnesota. The territory, which had been part of the Diocese of Saint Paul, was evangelized by the missionary priest Father Francis Xavier Pierz. It lost territory when the Diocese of Duluth was established in 1889. On September 22 of the same year the vicariate was elevated by Pope Leo XIII to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud. The ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Rapid City
The Diocese of Rapid City ( la, Dioecesis Rapidopolitana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in western South Dakota, United States. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. The cathedra is found within the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the episcopal see of Rapid City. Peter Michael Muhich was installed as bishop of this see on July 9, 2020. The diocese encompasses all South Dakota counties west of the Missouri River: Corson, Dewey, Stanley, Lyman, Gregory, Tripp, Todd, Bennett, Oglala Lakota, Fall River, Custer, Pennington, Lawrence, Meade, Butte, Harding, Perkins, Ziebach, Haakon, Jackson, Jones, and Mellette. History On August 6, 1902, Saint Pius X established the diocese as the Diocese of Lead. Its territory was taken from the Diocese of Sioux Falls. The name of the diocese was changed by Pope Pius XI on August 1, 1930, when the see city was trans ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Peoria
The Diocese of Peoria ( la, Diœcesis Peoriensis, Peoria, Illinois) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the central Illinois region of the United States. The Diocese of Peoria is a suffragan diocese within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Chicago. Territory The Diocese of Peoria was canonically erected on February 12, 1875. Its territory was taken from the former Diocese of Chicago. Due to the rapid growth of the Church in Central Illinois and the concern of Bishop Thomas Foley of Chicago about his inability to administer the area, given similar or greater growth of Chicago. He requested a division of his diocese in 1872, but the Holy See did not act upon it immediately. After another appeal in 1874, this one supported by Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick of St. Louis, Pope Pius IX on February 12, 1875, erected a new diocese encompassing twenty-three counties in Central Illinois from the Mississippi Ri ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Madison
The Diocese of Madison ( la, Diœcesis Madisonensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S. State of Wisconsin. It comprises Columbia, Dane, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, Lafayette, Marquette, Rock, and Sauk counties. The area of the diocese is approximately . There are approximately 167,000 Catholics in the Diocese. The Bishop of the Diocese of Madison is Donald J. Hying. There are 102 parishes in the diocese, with 98 priests in active ministry. The cathedral was Saint Raphael's Cathedral in Madison, but was destroyed by fire in 2005. The diocese currently has no cathedral. Parishioners of the Cathedral currently congregate at St. Patrick's and Holy Redeemer Parishes in Downtown Madison. Camp Gray, a summer camp and retreat center, is one of the ministries of the Diocese of Madison. History Early years The Diocese of Madison was established on January 9, 1946, by Pope Pius XII, in a decree dated December 22, 1945. The diocese was created out of territory f ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Gary
The Diocese of Gary ( la, Dioecesis Gariensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in northwest Indiana in the United States. It was founded on December 17, 1956, by Pope Pius XII. Its ecclesiastic territory includes Lake, Porter, LaPorte, and Starke counties. The mother church of the diocese is the Cathedral of the Holy Angels in Gary, Indiana. The Diocese of Gary is one of four suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Indianapolis. History During the first half of the 20th century, many Catholic immigrants came from Eastern Europe and Mexico to work in the region's growing steel industry. A number of parishes were founded near the steel mills so that the newly arrived immigrants could celebrate Mass in their native languages. In 1956 the four counties of Lake, Porter, LaPorte, and Starke belonged to the 18 county diocesan territory of the then named Diocese of Fort Wayne. On December 17, ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Crookston
The Diocese of Crookston ( la, Diœcesis Crookstoniensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church that covers the northwest section of the state of Minnesota in the United States of America. The Diocese of Crookston is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The episcopal see for the diocese is Crookston, Minnesota. The cathedral parish of the diocese is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The Diocese of Crookston comprises the 14 counties of Kittson, Roseau, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Polk, Red Lake, Pennington, Clearwater, Beltrami, Norman, Mahnomen, Hubbard, Clay and Becker. The diocese was erected on December 31, 1909, by Pope Pius X with territory drawn from the Archdiocese of Saint Paul. __NOTOC__ Bishops The list of bishops of the diocese and their terms of service: # Timothy J. Corbett (1910–38) # John Hubert Peschges (1938–44) # Francis Jose ...
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