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The Diocese of El Paso ( la, Dioecesis Elpasensis, es, Diócesis de El Paso) is a
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of the
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in
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. Covering , it encompasses the
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counties of
El Paso El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the s ...
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with approximately 668,000 professing members, being 80.8% of the total population, served by 107 priests, 54 parishes and 237 male and female religious. The see is a
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of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Erected on 3 March 1914, the Diocese of El Paso originally covered nearly in West Texas and southern
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having been created from parts of the dioceses of
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and Tucson. The present boundaries of the diocese were established on 17 August 1982 when the New Mexico portion of the diocese was split off to form part of the newly created Diocese of Las Cruces. The Diocese of El Paso is a
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Archdiocese of San Antonio.


History


Before the founding of the diocese

Originally, the present-day area of El Paso was under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Mexico which was established on 2 September 1530 by
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and included all of the territory of
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. On 13 July 1548
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erected the Diocese of Guadalajara, which included the northern frontier of New Spain. In 1620 Pope Paul V established the Diocese of Durango which encompassed all of the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and
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. In El Paso's present-day Mission Valley, Spanish missionaries established Mission Corpus Christi de la Isleta del Sur in 1682 and Mission Nuestra Señora de la Limpia Concepción de Los Piros de Socorro del Sur in 1682. In the 1770s the Presidio Chapel of San Elizario was established. These mission churches function to this day as parishes of the diocese and are among the oldest churches in the United States. As a result of the
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(1846–1848), the region became part of the United States, splitting from the Diocese of Durango, and on 23 July 1850 the Vicariate Apostolic of New Mexico was established, which on 29 July 1853 became the Diocese of Santa Fe under Bishop John Baptist Lamy, encompassing
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, which at the time included the present-day states of
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and
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. San José de Concordia el Alto was erected in 1859 on the site of the present Concordia Cemetery. It was the nearest Catholic church for El Paso residents at the time. There was no Catholic church in El Paso proper before 1881. Often Catholics from El Paso boarded a hand-pulled ferry to attend
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at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Juárez. When the see of Santa Fe was elevated to an
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, the El Paso area was transferred to the newly created Vicariate Apostolic of Arizona in 1868. In the 1880s the new railroad lines in El Paso created a population boom and in 1882 lots were purchased on North Oregon Street as a site for the first Catholic church in El Paso, known as St. Mary's or Holy Family, which was completed in November 1882. In 1891 the El Paso area was transferred to the newly created
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. St. Mary's School was opened for Catholic children in 1903. The earliest school of the Sisters of Loretto, Loretto Academy, dates from 1879 in San Elizario and, after moving to El Paso in 1892, continues to operate to the present day. Hotel Dieu, a hospital opened in 1892, operated for many decades. During the
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there was an influx of Catholics from Mexico into the El Paso area. To address the needs of the growing Catholic community,
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priest Carlos Pinto established several new parishes in El Paso. These included Sacred Heart, Immaculate Conception, St. Ignatius, Guardian Angel, and Holy Family parishes. Rural areas in southern New Mexico and west Texas were served by travelling priests in car and horseback. After Pinto's efforts, Catholic parishes began to flourish in El Paso.


Founding and early history

On 3 March 1914,
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established the Diocese of El Paso as a suffragan see of Santa Fe. The diocese covered nearly in West Texas and southern New Mexico and was created from parts of the dioceses of Dallas,
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and Tucson. Jesuit
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Father
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was appointed bishop of the newly created diocese on 22 January 1915 but resigned before his scheduled consecration. On 17 June 1915, another Jesuit, Father
Anthony Joseph Schuler Anthony Joseph Schuler (September 20, 1869 – June 3, 1944) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. A member of the Society of Jesus, he served as the first Bishop of El Paso from 1915 to 1942. Biography Early life and education Sch ...
, was appointed bishop and was consecrated on 28 October 1915 by
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, the Archbishop of Santa Fe. Bishop Schuler oversaw the construction of St. Patrick's Cathedral. In raising funds for the cathedral's construction, the diocese offered to allow the first group to raise $10,000 for the project to name the new cathedral. A group of Irish Catholic women met the challenge and chose St. Patrick as patron. At the time El Paso was a major center of the mining industry in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, with many of the miners being Irish. The anti-clerical Mexican Constitution of 1917 and the persecution of the Catholic Church under Mexican presidents
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and Plutarco Elías Calles resulted in an influx of priests and religious crossing back and forth between El Paso and Juárez to serve the needs of Catholics in Mexico during the Cristero War. Bishop Schuler ordained Father Pedro de Jesus Maldonado Lucero, from Chihuahua City, in St. Patrick Cathedral in 1918 to serve the needs of the faithful in the state of
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. Fr Maldonado was beaten to death in Santa Isabel, Chihuahua by town authorities in 1937 and was raised to sainthood as one of the
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canonised by
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in 2000. A memorial commemorating the ordination of St. Peter of Jesus Maldonado was erected in St. Patrick Cathedral in 2005. In 1924, Bishop Schuler opened
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and Cathedral High School. In 1939 Urbici Soler y Manonelles completed the Shrine of Cristo Rey on the mountain where the borders of New Mexico, Texas and Chihuahua meet. The massive statue of Christ the King looks out over three states in two nations. On 26 November 1941
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Sidney Matthew Metzger Sidney Matthew Metzger, STD, JCD (July 11, 1902 – April 12, 1986) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of El Paso in Texas from 1942 to 1978. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop ...
, then Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Fe,
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of El Paso. On 29 November 1942, Bishop Schuler retired and Metzger succeeded as bishop of El Paso. During the first few years of his term, with the help of the
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, Metzger travelled the United States making his appeal from the pulpit for funds to erect new apostolates needed by the diocese. His success was evident in the continuing establishment of Catholic ministries and institutions. Metzger built the current St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, two Catholic youth organisation camps in the New Mexico mountains, Holy Cross Retreat near Las Cruces. On 16 October 1961 the eastern portion of the diocese was carved out to form part of the newly erected
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. In the early 1960s, Bishop Metzger was called to Rome to attend the
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. Metzger oversaw the implementation of the Council's decrees in the diocese. Metzger was also a strong advocate for
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issues such as the rights of the working people to
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. In 1972 more than 3,000 employees of Farah Manufacturing Company in El Paso went on a strike lasting 20 months. Metzger gained national attention for his advocacy on behalf of the workers. At the time Metzger said, "I feel that the company is acting unjustly in denying to the workers the basic right to
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, the company's president, subsequently called Metzger a member of the "rotten old
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" and a man who is "lolling in wealth". On Saint Patrick's Day, 1978, Metzger retired and on 4 April 1978
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, Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, was appointed by
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to succeed him. Flores was installed on 29 May 1978 and served just over a year before being appointed Archbishop of San Antonio. On 29 April 1980, Raymundo Joseph Peña, Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio, was appointed bishop of El Paso and was installed on 18 June 1980. Continuing in Bishop Metzger's footsteps, Peña continued work for issues of social justice in the diocese taking up the cause the undocumented immigrants. Peña called for a middle ground in the blockade against the undocumented during the mid-1990s. He also established
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to prepare members of the laity for many ministries within the diocese. On 17 August 1982 the portion of the diocese in southern New Mexico was carved out to form part of the newly formed Diocese of Las Cruces; the Diocese of El Paso. which as a result was in Texas only, became part of the Province of San Antonio.


Present day

On 23 May 1994 Bishop Peña was transferred to the Diocese of Brownsville and on 1 April 1996 Pope John Paul II appointed then Auxiliary Bishop of
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as bishop of El Paso and he was installed on 26 June 1996. Ochoa has encouraged vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and the strengthening of diocesan ministries. In 1999 the diocese began a cooperative program with the
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for preparing seminarians from that area for ministry to the growing Hispanic population in the southern United States. In 2001 the diocese entered into a pact of solidarity with the dioceses of Choluteca,
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, and Brownsville, Texas, in response to the devastation caused in Central America in 1998 by Hurricane Mitch. In 2004, Ochoa established the Committee on a Five-Year Plan for Vocations and a Committee on the Life and Ministry of Priests. He initiated the annual Diocesan Congresses which enable the faithful to enrich their knowledge of the faith and commitment to ministry. On 1 December 2011
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appointed Ochoa as bishop of the
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, California. On 6 May 2013,
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Mark J. Seitz Mark Joseph Seitz (born January 10, 1954) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been serving as the bishop of the Diocese of El Paso in Texas since July 9, 2013. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese o ...
, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Dallas, to succeed Ochoa.


Sexual abuse cases

On January 31, 2019, the Diocese of El Paso released the names of 30 Catholic clergy who were "credibly accused" of committing acts of sexual abuse while serving in the Diocese. On May 6, 2020, the Diocese of El Paso and its St. Jude's and Immaculate Conception parishes, located in
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, were named in a sexual abuse lawsuit stemming from alleged abuse committed by David Holley. The plaintiff, identified as "John Doe," accused the Diocese of El Paso of protecting David Holley after Holley sexually abused him in the 1970s. The plaintiff alleged assault and battery as well as sexual assault and child pornography. On August 4, 2020, the Diocese of El Paso was named in a sexual abuse lawsuit involving a plaintiff identified as "Jane Doe," for alleged sex abuse committed by Damian Gamboa at the St. Francis de Paula Church in Tularosa, New Mexico in the early 1980s. The New Mexico church was later transferred to the Diocese of Las Cruces, which was also named as a defendant in the lawsuit as well.


Bishops


Bishops of El Paso

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Anthony Joseph Schuler Anthony Joseph Schuler (September 20, 1869 – June 3, 1944) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. A member of the Society of Jesus, he served as the first Bishop of El Paso from 1915 to 1942. Biography Early life and education Sch ...
, S.J. (1915-1942) #
Sidney Matthew Metzger Sidney Matthew Metzger, STD, JCD (July 11, 1902 – April 12, 1986) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of El Paso in Texas from 1942 to 1978. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop ...
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Patrick Fernandez Flores Patricio Fernández Flores (July 26, 1929 – January 9, 2017) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served from 1979 to 2004 as archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio in Texas, bishop of the Diocese of El Paso in Texa ...
(1978-1979), appointed Archbishop of San Antonio # Raymundo Joseph Peña (1980-1994), appointed Bishop of Brownsville #
Armando Xavier Ochoa Armando Xavier Ochoa, D.D., (born April 9, 1943) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Fresno in California (2011 to 2019), bishop of the Diocese of El Paso in Texas (1996 to 2011) and auxil ...
(1996-2011), appointed Bishop of Fresno # Mark Joseph Seitz (2013–present) (
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, S.J. was appointed in 1915; did not take effect.)


Coadjutor Bishop

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Sidney Matthew Metzger Sidney Matthew Metzger, STD, JCD (July 11, 1902 – April 12, 1986) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of El Paso in Texas from 1942 to 1978. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop ...
(1941-1942)


Education

; High Schools * Cathedral High School, El Paso *
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, El Paso * Loretto Academy, El Paso


See also

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Cathedral Parish of Saint Patrick in El Paso St. Patrick Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of El Paso, Texas. The cathedral is located at 1118 N. Mesa Street, north of the downtown area. It is the mother church for 668,000 Catholics in the diocese (80.8% of total populat ...
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* Cristero War * Ecclesiastical Province of San Antonio *
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* Urbici Soler y Manonelles


References


External links


Roman Catholic Diocese of El Paso Official SiteDiocese of El Paso Catholic Schools
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