The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, is a Latin

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. Its boundaries are coterminous with the state of

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. Its

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is the

Cathedral of the Madeleine The Cathedral of the Madeleine is a Roman Catholic church in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was completed in 1909 and currently serves as the cathedral, or mother church, of the Diocese of Salt Lake City. It is the only cathedral in the ...

Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Utah, most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the county seat, seat of Salt Lake County, Utah, Sal ...

and it is a

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of the

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. On January 10, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Oscar Azarcon Solis, then an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, the 10th bishop of Salt Lake City.

Statistics and extent

As per 2014, it pastorally served 291,000 Catholics (10.0% of 2,900,872 total) on 219,887 km² in 48 parishes with 69 priests (62 diocesan, 7 religious), 75 deacons, 43 lay religious (14 brothers, 29 sisters) and 7 seminarians. It comprises the entire state of

History

In 1871 Patrick Walsh built the first Catholic Church in Utah, dedicating it to

Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to crucifixion of Jesus, his cru ...

. Lawrence Scanlan arrived in 1873 to become pastor. He took care of the Catholic military men, immigrant miners and railroad workers who numbered in the hundreds. Small churches, schools, an orphanage and a hospital were built, staffed by clergy and by the

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, to serve the growing Catholic population. As the nineteenth century came to a close, the Catholic community in Salt Lake City was rapidly outgrowing the small church of St. Mary Magdalene. In 1887 the Catholic Church in Utah became the Apostolic Vicariate of Utah, on territory split off from its metropolitan diocese, the

. Ground was broken for the new church in 1899. Construction for the Cathedral of the Madeleine would last nearly a decade, costing a small fortune for the estimated 3,000 Catholics in Utah at the turn of the century. Assistance was obtained from Catholic Mission Societies. On January 27, 1891 it was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake and on March 27, 1931 it lost territory to establish the

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. Finally, on March 31, 1951 it was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake City.

Bishops

The following includes the lists of bishops, coadjutor bishops, and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their dates of service.

Apostolic Vicar of Salt Lake

Lawrence Scanlan Lawrence Scanlan (September 28, 1843 – May 10, 1915) was an Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. A missionary and pioneer bishop, he served as the first Bishop of Salt Lake from 1891 until his death in 1915. Early life Scan ...

(1886-1887)

Bishops of Salt Lake

# Lawrence Scanlan (1887-1915) #

Joseph Sarsfield Glass Joseph Sarsfield Glass, C.M. (March 13, 1874 – January 26, 1926) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake in Utah from 1915 until his death in 1926. Biography Early life G ...

(1915-1926) #

John Joseph Mitty John Joseph Mitty (January 20, 1884 – October 15, 1961) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the third Bishop of Salt Lake City (1926–1932) and the fourth Archbishop of San Francisco (1935–1961). Ea ...

(1926-1932), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop and later

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James Edward Kearney James Edward Kearney (October 28, 1884 – January 12, 1977) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City in Utah (1932–1937) and bishop of the Diocese of Rochester in New York (193 ...

(1932-1937), appointed

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Duane Garrison Hunt Duane Garrison Hunt (September 19, 1884—March 31, 1960) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City in Utalh from 1937 until his death in 1960. Biography Early life and edu ...

(1937-1951)

Bishops of Salt Lake City

(1951-1960) #

Joseph Lennox Federal Joseph Lennox Federal (January 13, 1910 – August 31, 2000) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City in Utah from 1960 to 1980. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop and ...

(1960-1980) #

William Kenneth Weigand William Keith Weigand (born May 23, 1937) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento in California from 1993 to 2008. Weigand previously served as the bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lak ...

(1980-1993), appointed Bishop of Sacramento #

George Hugh Niederauer George Hugh Niederauer (June 14, 1936 – May 2, 2017) was an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of San Francisco. Before that, Niederauer served as Bishop of Salt Lake City from 1994 to 2005. Biography George ...

(1994-2005), appointed

John Charles Wester John Charles Wester, (born November 5, 1950) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe in New Mexico since 2015. He previously served as bishop of the Diocese of Salt ...

(2007-2015), appointed

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# Oscar Azarcon Solis (2017–present)

Coadjutor Bishop

# Joseph Lennox Federal (1958-1960)

Auxiliary Bishops

# Leo John Steck (1948-1950) # Joseph Lennox Federal (1951-1958), appointed Coadjutor Bishop and later Bishop here

Other priest of this diocese who became Bishop

Robert Joseph Dwyer Robert Joseph Dwyer (August 1, 1908 – March 24, 1976) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the fifth Archbishop of Portland from 1966 to 1974, having previously served as the second Bishop of Reno (1952–66). Early ...

, appointed Bishop of Reno in 1952

Catholic education

The Diocese of Salt Lake City has many Catholic elementary-middle schools with its borders: * Blessed Sacrament Catholic School, Sandy * J.E Cosgriff Memorial Catholic School, Salt Lake City * Kearns-Saint Ann Catholic School, South Salt Lake * Madeleine Choir Catholic School, Salt Lake City * Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, Salt Lake City * Saint Andrew Catholic School, Riverton * Saint Francis Xavier Catholic School, Kearns *

Saint John the Baptist Catholic Elementary School In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of Q-D-Š, holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and Christian denomination, denominat ...

, Draper * Saint John the Baptist Catholic Middle School, Draper *

Saint Joseph Catholic Elementary School In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Orth ...

, Ogden * Saint Marguerite Catholic School, Tooele * Saint Olaf Catholic School, Bountiful *

Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic School In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of Q-D-Š, holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and Christian denomination, denominat ...

, Salt Lake City As well, the diocese has three Catholic high schools within its borders: * Juan Diego Catholic High School, Draper *

Judge Memorial Catholic High School Judge Memorial Catholic High School is a private Catholic high school located in Salt Lake City, Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It is one of three high schools in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City serving students in grades ...

, Salt Lake City * St. Joseph Catholic High School, Ogden

Cathedral

* Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City Utah

Religious orders

Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity The Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity was a Trappist Cistercian monastery in Huntsville, Utah, United States. They were Catholic contemplative monks of an enclosed religious order known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OC ...

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Cistercian The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...

monks (closed in 2017)
Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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Saint Benedict Monastery & Hospital in South Ogden Utah
- Sisters of St.

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(monastery closed and hospital sold)

References

Sources and external links

Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City Official Site

Intermountain Catholic
- newspaper of the Diocese of Salt Lake City
Outreach programs of the Salt Lake City area
(

Catholic Community Services of Utah Catholic Community Services is a ministry of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City that operates various programs in Salt Lake City and Ogden designed to provide help and create hope for those impacted by homelessness as food insecurity. CCS ...

)
Archdiocese of San Francisco
- official site * {{DEFAULTSORT:Salt Lake City, Roman Catholic Diocese Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of San Francisco Religious organizations established in 1887 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States 1887 establishments in Utah Territory