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region of the United States. It covers the San Francisco, California, City and County of San Francisco and the Counties of Marin County, California, Marin and San Mateo County, California, San Mateo. The Archdiocese of San Francisco was canonically erected on July 29, 1853, by Pope Pius IX and its cathedral is the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco, California), Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption. This archdiocese is the Metropolis (religious jurisdiction), metropolitan see of a province which also has the dioceses of Honolulu (Hawaii), Las Vegas (Nevada), Reno (Nevada), Salt Lake City (Utah), Oakland (California), San Jose (California), Santa Rosa (California), Sacramento (California), and Stockton (California).

History

The first church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is older than the archdiocese itself; Mission San Francisco de Asís was founded on June 29, 1776 by Franciscan, Franciscan Friars. The mission church that stands today was completed in 1791 and attached next door is Mission Dolores, Mission Dolores Basilica, completed in 1918 to replace the previous red-brick church at the same site that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. The present building was elevated to the status of a Basilica in 1952. The Franciscans who founded the mission also are credited with naming the City and County of San Francisco, and the entire region, after their patron saint, Francis of Assisi. On July 27, 2012, the Holy See announced that it had accepted the retirement of Archbishop George Hugh Niederauer and appointed Salvatore J. Cordileone as new archbishop of San Francisco. He was installed on October 4, 2012, the patronal Saint Francis of Assisi, Feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco, California), Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption. He had previously been Bishop of Oakland,

. The See of San Francisco is administered by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco, Archbishop of San Francisco, who as metropolitan bishop, metropolitan oversees the entire ecclesiastical province of San Francisco. Its suffragans include the Dioceses of Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, Honolulu, Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, Oakland, Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno, Reno, Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, Sacramento, Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California, San Jose, Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California, Santa Rosa, and Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton, Stockton. San Francisco once included among its suffragans the now-Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agaña, Metropolitan Archdiocese of Agaña, Guam and the former dioceses of Roman Catholic Diocese of Grass Valley, Grass Valley, Diocese of Los Angeles-San Diego, Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey, Monterey, Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey-Fresno, Monterey-Fresno, and Diocese of Monterey-Los Angeles. The Chancery Office (also known as the Pastoral Center) of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, originally located in 1853 at California and Dupont Streets, moved in 1891 to 1100 Franklin Street, in 1955 re-located to 445 Church Street, on the Mission Dolores Basilica property. The present headquarters, as of 2001 of the Archdiocese of San Francisco are located at One Peter Yorke Way, a short street in San Francisco named after Peter Yorke, an Irish-American Catholic priest. Peter Yorke Way and Starr King Way are off of Geary Street as it becomes Geary Boulevard. On October 7, 2017, the Feast of the Holy Rosary, Archbishop Cordileone consecrated the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. From May to December 2019, the Archdiocese of San Francisco provided numerous documents to California State Attorney Xavier Becerra in preparation for a series of pending lawsuits which are expected to be filed after a new California law which will temporarily remove the statute of limitations goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The Archdiocese of San Francisco is one of six Catholic dioceses throughout the state of California which is expected to be subpoenaed in the upcoming lawsuits.

Bishops

The lists of archbishops, coadjutor archbishops, and auxiliary bishops and their terms of service, followed by other priests of this diocese who became bishops:

Archbishops of San Francisco

# Joseph Sadoc Alemany, Joseph Sadoc Alemany y Conill, Dominican Order, O.P. (1853–1884) # Patrick William Riordan (1884–1914; Coadjutor Archbishop 1883-1884)
- George Thomas Montgomery, Coadjutor Archbishop (1902–1907), appointed Bishop of Monterrey-Los Angeles # Edward Joseph Hanna (1915–1935) # John Joseph Mitty (1935–1961; Coadjutor Archbishop 1932-1935) # Joseph Thomas McGucken (1962–1977) # John Raphael Quinn (1977–1995) # William Joseph Levada (1995–2005), appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (elevated to Cardinal (Catholic Church), Cardinal in 2006) # George Hugh Niederauer (2006–2012) # Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (2012–present)

Auxiliary bishops

* Denis J. O'Connell, Denis Joseph O'Connell (1908–1912), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Bishop of Richmond * Edward Joseph Hanna (1912–1914), appointed Archbishop here * Thomas Arthur Connolly (1939–1948), appointed Coadjutor Bishop and later Bishop and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle, Archbishop of Seattle * Hugh Aloysius Donohoe (1947–1962), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton, Bishop of Stockton * James Thomas O'Dowd (1948–1950) * Merlin Guilfoyle, Merlin Joseph Guilfoyle (1950–1969), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton, Bishop of Stockton * William Joseph McDonald (1967–1979) * Mark Joseph Hurley (1968–1969), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa, Bishop of Santa Rosa * Norman Francis McFarland (1970–1974), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno, Bishop of Reno-Las Vegas * Francis Quinn, Francis Anthony Quinn (1978–1979), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, Bishop of Sacramento * Pierre DuMaine, Roland Pierre DuMaine (1978–1981), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California, Bishop of San Jose in California * Daniel F. Walsh, Daniel Francis Walsh (1981–1987), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno, Bishop of Reno and later Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas, Bishop of Las Vegas and Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California, Bishop of Santa Rosa in California * Carlos Arthur Sevilla, Society of Jesus, S.J. (1988–1996), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Yakima, Bishop of Yakima * Patrick Joseph McGrath (1988–1998), appointed Coadjutor Bishop and later Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California, Bishop of San Jose in California * John Charles Wester (1998–2007), appointed Coadjutor Bishop and Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, Bishop of Salt Lake City and later Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Archbishop of Santa Fe * Ignatius C. Wang, Ignatius Chung Wang (2002–2009) * William J. Justice, William Joseph Justice (2008–2017) * Robert W. McElroy, Robert Walter McElroy (2010–2015), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego, Bishop of San Diego * Robert Francis Christian, Dominican Order, O.P. (2018–2019)

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

* Lawrence Scanlan, appointed Vicar Apostolic of Utah in 1887 and later Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, Bishop of Salt Lake City * Patrick Joseph James Keane, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Sacramento in 1920 and later Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, Bishop of Sacramento * James Joseph Sweeney, appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, Bishop of Honolulu in 1941 * John Joseph Scanlan, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Honolulu in 1954 and later Bishop of Honolulu * William Joseph Moran, appointed auxiliary bishop of United States of America Military in 1965 * Francis Thomas Hurley, appointed Auxiliary Bishop in 1970 and Roman Catholic Diocese of Juneau, Bishop of Juneau and later Archdiocese of Anchorage, Archbishop of Anchorage * John Stephen Cummins, appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, Auxiliary Bishop of Sacramento in 1974 and later Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, Bishop of Oakland * Richard John Garcia (priest here, 1973-1981), appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, Auxiliary Bishop of Sacramento in 1997 and later Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California, Bishop of Monterey California * Randolph Roque Calvo, appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno, Bishop of Reno in 2005 * Thomas Anthony Daly, appointed Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California, Auxiliary Bishop of San Jose in California in 2011 and later Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, Bishop of Spokane * Steven Joseph Lopes, appointed Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in 2015

Cathedrals

* Old Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception — California Street and Grant Avenue, in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, Chinatown (1854–1891). * Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption — 1001 Van Ness Avenue at O'Farrell Street (1891–1962); destroyed by fire in 1962, the site of the former studios of KRON-TV. * Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco, California), Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption — 1111 Gough at Geary Boulevard on Cathedral Hill; modern structure (1971–present).

Churches

The Archdiocese of San Francisco includes the San Francisco, California, City and County of San Francisco and the Counties of Marin County, California, Marin and San Mateo County, California, San Mateo. The archdiocese includes many historic churches including Mission San Francisco de Asís, the oldest building in San Francisco, and Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco, Saints Peter and Paul Church, known as the Italian cathedral of the West. A complete list of the churches of the archdiocese is found at List of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Education

All full-time faculty, librarians, and counselors at Archbishop Riordan, Junipero Serra, Marin Catholic, and Sacred Heart Cathedral high schools are represented by The San Francisco Archdiocesan Federation of Teachers, Local 2240, a trade union, labor union affiliate of the California Federation of Teachers (American Federation of Teachers, AFT, AFL–CIO), and have a collective bargaining agreement with the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The CBA governs the terms of their employment.

Secondary schools

;Marin County * Marin Catholic High School (Kentfield, California, Kentfield in unincorporated Marin County, California, Marin County) ;San Francisco * Archbishop Riordan High School * Convent of the Sacred Heart High School (California), Convent of the Sacred Heart High School * Immaculate Conception Academy (San Francisco, California), Immaculate Conception Academy * Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory * St. Ignatius College Preparatory * Stuart Hall High School ;San Mateo County * Junípero Serra High School (San Mateo, California), Junípero Serra High School (San Mateo, California, San Mateo) * Mercy High School (Burlingame, California), Mercy High School (Burlingame, California, Burlingame) * Notre Dame High School (Belmont, California), Notre Dame High School (Belmont, California, Belmont) * Sacred Heart Preparatory (Atherton, California), Sacred Heart Preparatory (Atherton, California, Atherton) * Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley

Closed schools

* Mercy High School (San Francisco), Mercy High School

Seminaries

*St. Joseph's Seminary (Mountain View, California) (closed) *Saint Patrick's Seminary and University (Menlo Park, California)

Recognized lay ecclesial movements

* Fraternity of Communion and Liberation (CL). CL is an ecclesial association of Pontifical Right. Meetings are held weekly at St. Thomas More Church and the National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Province of San Francisco

:See ''List of the Catholic bishops of the United States#Province of San Francisco, List of the Catholic bishops of the United States''

The Metropolitan Ecclesiastical Province of San Francisco covers Northern California north of the Monterey Bay, as well as all of Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. The Archbishop of San Francisco, who is ''ex officio'' metropolitan bishop of the Province of San Francisco, has limited oversight responsibilities for the dioceses of Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, Honolulu, Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, Oakland, Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno, Reno, Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, Sacramento, Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California, San Jose, Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California, Santa Rosa, and Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton, Stockton.

References

External links

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Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption

Catholic San Francisco Article on the 40th Anniversary
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