The Archdiocese of St. Louis ( la, Archidiœcesis Sancti Ludovici) is a
Latin Church
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ecclesiastical territory or
archdiocese
In 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 provinces were administratively associate ...
of the
Catholic Church
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that covers the
City of St. Louis and the
Missouri
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counties of
Franklin
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,
Jefferson Jefferson may refer to:
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* Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), third president of the United States
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,
Lincoln
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* Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States
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,
Perry
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,
Saint Charles,
Saint Francois,
Ste. Genevieve,
St. Louis
St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...
,
Warren
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, and
Washington
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. It is the
metropolitan see
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of the
ecclesiastical province
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containing three
suffragan see
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s:
Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau
In 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 provinces were administratively associate ...
, the
Diocese of Jefferson City
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, and the
Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph
In 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 provinces were administratively associat ...
.
It was led from 2009 to 2020 by former
Bishop of Saginaw Robert James Carlson
Robert James Carlson (born June 30, 1944) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the ninth archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis in Missouri from 2009 to 2020.
Carlson previously served as an auxiliary bishop ...
, who was named the archbishop-elect on April 21, 2009, by
Pope Benedict XVI
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and
installed on June 10, 2009. Archbishop Carlson was assisted by Auxiliary Bishop
Robert Joseph Hermann, who retired in 2010. Then, Auxiliary Bishop
Edward Matthew Rice served from 2010 to 2016, and was in turn replaced by
Mark Steven Rivituso
Mark Steven Rivituso (born September 20, 1961) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of St. Louis in Missouri since 2017.
Biography
Early life
Mark S. Rivituso was bo ...
, who was appointed in 2017. Carlson's predecessor as
Archbishop
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was
Raymond Leo Burke
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, who transferred to the position of Prefect of the
Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
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on June 27, 2008. Carlson retired on June 10, 2020, and on that day,
Mitchell Thomas Rozanski, the
Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts, was appointed his successor.
The archdiocesan
cathedral
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is the
Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. The original cathedral and
mother church
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is the
Basilica of St. Louis, King of France
The Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France (french: Cathédrale Saint-Louis-Roi-de-France de Saint-Louis), formerly the Cathedral of Saint Louis, and colloquially the Old Cathedral, was the first cathedral west of the Mississippi River and until ...
.
History
Early history
The first parish of Saint Louis was established in 1770 by French settlers to the region. The parish was then part of the
Diocese of San Cristobal de la Habana, based in
Havana, Cuba
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Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Ste. Genevieve (french: Sainte-Geneviève ) is a city in Ste. Genevieve Township and is the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,999 at the 2020 census. Founded in 1735 by French Canadian coloni ...
Pope Pius VI erected the Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas encompassing the pioneer parishes of St Louis, New Orleans, and
Louisiana
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and both Florida colonies on April 25, 1793, taking its territory from the
Diocese of San Cristobal de la Habana, based in
Havana, Cuba
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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (french: Vente de la Louisiane, translation=Sale of Louisiana) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or app ...
, from the
Gulf of Mexico
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to
British North America
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, as well as the Florida peninsula and the
Gulf Coast
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.
[Points, Marie Louise. "New Orleans." The Catholic Encyclopedia]
Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. November 19, 2017 This date of erection makes the present Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Louis and the Archdiocese of New Orleans the second oldest Catholic dioceses in the present United States after the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore
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, which the same pope had erected as the Diocese of Baltimore on November 6, 1789. The new diocese encompassed the area under the Spanish crown as
Luisiana
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, which was all the land draining into the Mississippi River from the west, as well as Spanish territory to the east of the river in modern-day
Mississippi
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,
Alabama
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, and
Florida
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.
In April 1803, the United States purchased
Louisiana
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from France, which had in 1800 forced Spain to retrocede the territory in the
Third Treaty of San Ildefonso
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. The United States took formal possession of St Louis, then part of
Upper Louisiana
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, on March 10, 1804.
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, the
Bishop of Baltimore
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, served as
apostolic administrator
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of the diocese from 1805 to 1812.
The area's first bishop was
Louis William Valentine Dubourg
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, who on September 24, 1815, was appointed Bishop of
Louisiana
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and the
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