The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson ( la, Dioecesis Tucsonensis, es, Diócesis de Tucson) is an ecclesiastical territory or
diocese
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 associa ...
of the
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
in the southwestern region of the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
. It is a
suffragan see
A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian denominations, in particular the Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, ...
of the Metropolitan
Archdiocese of Santa Fe
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe ( la, Archidioecesis Sanctae Fidei in America Septentrionali, link=no, es, Arquidiócesis de Santa Fe, link=no) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the southwestern region of the United States in ...
. The diocese was recently led by its seventh
bishop
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.
In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is c ...
, Most Reverend
Gerald Frederick Kicanas
Gerald Frederick Kicanas (born August 18, 1941) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Tucson in Arizona from 2002 to 2017. He served as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Las Cru ...
, who retired on October 3, 2017.
Its current diocesan bishop is Most Rev.
Edward Weisenburger.
The
See city
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* Music:
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*** "See", song by The Rascals, on the album ''See''
** "See" (Tycho song), song by Tycho
* Television
* ...
for the diocese is
Tucson, Arizona
, "(at the) base of the black ill
, nicknames = "The Old Pueblo", "Optics Valley", "America's biggest small town"
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, and its
cathedral
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parish is the
St. Augustine. Another church of special interest is the
Mission San Xavier del Bac
Mission San Xavier del Bac ( es, La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 16 ...
, also in Tucson.
Extent
It comprises nine
counties
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of the state of
Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
, making it the fifth largest diocese in the continental United States in terms of area. The counties are
Gila,
Graham
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People
* Graham (given name), an English-language given name
* Graham (surname), an English-language surname
* Graeme (surname), an English-language surname
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* Clan ...
,
Greenlee,
Pinal (excluding the territorial boundaries of the
Gila River Indian Community
The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) (O'odham language: Keli Akimel Oʼotham, ''meaning "Gila River People"'', Maricopa language: Pee-Posh) is an Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona, lying adjacent to the south side of the city of ...
),
Cochise
Cochise (; Apache: ''Shi-ka-She'' or ''A-da-tli-chi'', lit.: ''having the quality or strength of an oak''; later ''K'uu-ch'ish'' or ''Cheis'', lit. ''oak''; June 8, 1874) was leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen and principa ...
,
Santa Cruz,
Pima,
Yuma, and
La Paz.
History
Pope Pius IX established the
Apostolic Vicariate of Arizona in 1868, taking its territory from the then
Diocese of Santa Fe.
The Diocese of Tucson was canonically erected by
Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII ( it, Leone XIII; born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was the head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 to his death in July 1903. Living until the age of 93, he was the second-old ...
as a diocese on May 8, 1897.
It lost territory thrice: on 3 March 1914 to establish the
Diocese of El Paso
The Diocese of El Paso ( la, Dioecesis Elpasensis, es, Diócesis de El Paso) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in West Texas. Covering , it encompasses the Texas counties of El Paso, Brewster, Culb ...
, on 16 December 1939 to establish the
Diocese of Gallup and on 28 June 1969 to establish the
Diocese of Phoenix
The Diocese of Phoenix ( la, Dioecesis Phoenicensis; es, Diócesis de Phoenix) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory or diocese in the state of Arizona in the United States. It was established on December 2, 1969, when it was split off ...
.
Sexual abuse scandal
The Diocese of Tucson filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September 2004, becoming the second Catholic Diocese to do so in United States history. The Diocese of Tucson reached an agreement with the victims of
sex abuse
Sexual abuse or sex abuse, also referred to as molestation, is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another. It is often perpetrated using force or by taking advantage of another. Molestation often refers to an instance of sexual assa ...
, which the bankruptcy judge approved on June 11, 2005, specifying terms that included allowing the diocese reorganization to continue in return for a $22.2 million settlement. In 2013, Stephanie Innes of the Arizona Daily Star labeled the Diocese as a "dumping ground" for abusive priests after it was revealed that several accused clergy from other Catholic Dioceses were sent to the Diocese of Tucson when accusations of sex abuse started gaining traction. In 2018, Tucson Bishop
Edward J. Weisenburger confirmed that 10 Catholic clergy who were accused of committing acts of sex abuse had been removed from the Diocese of Tucson "in the last decade."
On December 31, 2020, a federal
RICO
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.
RICO was en ...
lawsuit was filed against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson which alleged that the Diocese used the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles ( la, Archidiœcesis Angelorum in California, es, Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles) is an ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church ( particularly the Roman Catholic or Latin Church) located in th ...
in the neighboring state of California as a "dumping ground" for accused clergy who were reported to have committed acts of sex abuse while serving in the Diocese of Tucson. In March 2021, it was revealed another plaintiff was added to the lawsuit, which had been filed against both Dioceses.
Bishops
Apostolic Vicars of Arizona
#
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe (February 22, 1825 – July 15, 1898) was the first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe.
Early life and education
Salpointe was born in Saint-Maurice-près-Pionsat, Puy-de-Dôme, to Jean and Jeanne ( ...
(1868–1884), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop and later
Archbishop of Santa Fe
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe ( la, Archidioecesis Sanctae Fidei in America Septentrionali, link=no, es, Arquidiócesis de Santa Fe, link=no) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the southwestern region of the United States in ...
#
Peter Bourgade (1885–1897)
Bishops of Tucson
# Peter Bourgade (1897–1899), appointed
Archbishop of Santa Fe
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe ( la, Archidioecesis Sanctae Fidei in America Septentrionali, link=no, es, Arquidiócesis de Santa Fe, link=no) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the southwestern region of the United States in ...
#
Henry Regis Granjon
Henry Regis Granjon (June 15, 1863 – November 9, 1922) was a French-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Tucson in the American Southwest from 1900 until his death in 1922.
Biography
Early li ...
(1900–1922)
#
Daniel James Gercke
Daniel James Gercke (October 9, 1874 – March 19, 1964) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Tucson in Arizona from 1923 to 1960.
Biography
Early life
Daniel Gercke was born in the ...
(1923–1960)
#
Francis Joseph Green
Francis Joseph Green (July 7, 1906 – May 11, 1995) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson, Diocese of Tucson from 1960 to 1981.
Biography
Early life
Francis Gree ...
(1960–1981)
#
Manuel Duran Moreno
Manuel Duran Moreno (November 27, 1930 – November 17, 2006) was an American
bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the sixth Bishop of Tucson.
Biography
Bishop Moreno was born in Placentia, California, to Antonio and Enedina Moreno. H ...
(1982–2003)
#
Gerald Frederick Kicanas
Gerald Frederick Kicanas (born August 18, 1941) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Tucson in Arizona from 2002 to 2017. He served as the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Las Cru ...
(2003–2017)
#
Edward Weisenburger (2017–present)
Coadjutor Bishops
* Francis Joseph Green (1960)
* Gerald Frederick Kicanas (2001–2003)
Other priest of this diocese who became Bishop
*
Thomas Joseph O'Brien, appointed Bishop of Phoenix in 1981, resigned in disgrace, 2003, convicted of felony of hit and run involving death, 2004.
High schools
*
Immaculate Heart High School, Oro Valley
*
Lourdes Catholic School, Nogales
*
St. Augustine Catholic High School, Tucson
*
San Miguel High School, Tucson
*
Yuma Catholic High School
Yuma Catholic High School (YCHS) in Yuma, Arizona, United States, is a private Catholic high school that provides a college preparatory education. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson.
References
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, Yuma
Other dioceses in Arizona
*
Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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*
Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup
The Diocese of Gallup ( la, Dioecesis Gallupiensis, es, Diócesis de Gallup) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the southwestern region of the United States, encompassing counties in the states of Ariz ...
Parishes and missions by county
Cochise County
Cochise County () is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is named after the Native American chief Cochise.
The population was 125,447 at the 2020 census. The county seat is Bisbee and the most populous city is ...
# Our Lady of Lourdes,
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United Kingdom
* Benson, Oxfordshire ...
# St Andrew the Apostle,
Sierra Vista
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# Our Lady of the Mountains, Sierra Vista
#
Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus ( la, Cor Jesu Sacratissimum) is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind". This dev ...
,
Tombstone
# Sacred Heart of Jesus Church,
Willcox
# St Jude Thaddeus Parish,
# St Patrick Parish,
Bisbee
# St Michael,
Naco
# St Bernard,
Pirtleville
# Immaculate Conception,
Douglas
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People
* Douglas (given name)
* Douglas (surname)
Animals
*Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking
*Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civil W ...
# St Luke, Douglas
Gila County
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Gila County comprises the Payson, Arizona Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Gila County contains p ...
# St Philip the Apostle Parish,
Payson
# St Benedict,
Young
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* Offspring, the product of reproduction of a new organism produced by one or more parents
* Youth, the time of life when one is young, often meaning the time between childhood and adulthood
Music
* The Young, an American roc ...
# Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament,
Miami
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# Holy Angels,
Globe
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# San Carlos Apache Community,
San Carlos
# St Joseph,
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Places Inhabited places in the United States
*Hayden, Alabama
*Hayden, Arizona
*Hayden's Ferry, former name of Tempe, Arizona
*Hayden, California, former name of Hayden Hill, California
*Hayden, Colorado
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*Hayden ...
Graham County
# Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish,
Solomonville
# St Rose of Lima,
Safford
# St Martin de Porres,
Pima
Pima or PIMA may refer to:
People
* Pima people, the Akimel O'odham, Indigenous peoples in Arizona (U.S.) and Sonora (Mexico)
Places
* Pima, Arizona, a town in Graham County
* Pima County, Arizona
* Pima Canyon, in the Santa Catalina Mountains ...
Greenlee County
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# Holy Cross,
Morenci
# Sacred Heart,
Clifton
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People
*Clifton (surname)
*Clifton (given name)
Places
Australia
* Clifton, Queensland, a town
**Shire of Clifton
*Clifton, New South Wales, a suburb of Wollongong
*Clifton, Western Australia
Canada
*Clifton, Nova Scotia ...
# St Mary,
Duncan
La Paz County
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# Sacred Heart Parish,
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# Queen of Peace Mission,
Quartzsite
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Interstate 10 runs directly through Quartzsite which is at the intersection of U.S. Route 95 and Arizona State Route 95 wi ...
# St John the Baptist Mission,
Wenden
# Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Mission,
Poston
Pima County
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# Corpus Christi Parish,
Tanque Verde
# Holy Family Parish, Tucson
# Most Holy Trinity Parish, Tucson
# Our Lady of Fátima Parish,
Drexel Heights
# Our Lady of LaVang Vietnamese Catholic Church, Tucson
# Our Lady Queen of all Saints Parish, Tucson
# Our Mother of Sorrows Parish, Tucson
# Queen of Angels Parish, Tucson
# Sacred Heart, Tucson
# St Ambrose Parish, Tucson
#
St. Augustine Cathedral, Tucson
# St Cyril of Alexandria Parish, Tucson
# St Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish,
Casas Adobes
# St Frances Cabrini Parish, Tucson
# St Francis de Sales Parish, Tucson
# St John the Evangelist Parish, Tucson
# St Joseph Parish, Tucson
# St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish,
South Tucson
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# St Margaret Mary Alacoque Parish, Tucson
# St Mark Parish,
Oro Valley
Oro Valley, incorporated in 1974, is a suburban town located north of Tucson, Arizona, United States, in Pima County. According to the 2020 census, the population of the town is 47,070, an increase from 29,700 in 2000. Dubbed the "Upscale Te ...
# St Melany's Byzantine Church, Tucson
# St Monica Parish, Tucson
# St Odilia Parish, Oro Valley
# St Pius X Parish, Tucson
# Ss Peter and Paul Parish, Tucson
# St Thomas More Newman Center, Tucson
# St Thomas the Apostle Parish,
Catalina Foothills
Catalina Foothills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located north of Tucson in Pima County, Arizona, United States. Situated in the southern foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Catalina Foothills had a po ...
#
San Xavier del Bac Mission
Mission San Xavier del Bac ( es, La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spain, Spanish Roman Catholic Church, Catholic mission (Christian), mission located about south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier ...
and Parish,
San Xavier Indian Reservation
The San Xavier Indian Reservation ( O’odham: Wa:k) is an Indian reservation of the Tohono O’odham Nation located near Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert. The San Xavier Reservation lies in the southwestern part of the Tucson metropolitan ...
# Santa Catalina Parish,
Catalina
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* ''Catalina'' (novel), a 1948 novel by W. Somerset Maugham
* Catalina (''My Name Is Earl''), character from the NBC sitcom ''My Name Is Earl''
...
# Santa Cruz Parish, Tucson
# San Martín Mission
# Santa Rosa Mission
# Cristo Rey Mission
# San Ignacio de Loyola Mission
# El Señor de los Milagros Mission
# San Juan Bautista Mission
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# St. Christopher Parish,
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* Maraña, a village in León, Spain
* Maraṇa, the Pali/Sanskrit term for death
* Marana, Arizona, a town in Pima County, Arizona, United States
* Marana, Estonia, a village in Estonia
* Marana, Syria, a village in Syria
...
# Immaculate Conception Parish,
Ajo
# Our Lady of the Sacred Heart,
Sells
# San Solano Missions/Parish,
Topowa
# St Augustine Mision,
Chuichu
# San José Mission,
Pisenemo
# Our Lady of the Valley Parish,
Green Valley
# San Martín de Porres Parish,
Sahuarita
Sahuarita is a town in Pima County, Arizona, United States. Sahuarita is located south of the Tohono O'odham Nation and abuts the north end of Green Valley, 15 miles (24 km) south of Tucson. The population was 34,134 at th2020 census
His ...
# St. Rita in the Desert Parish,
Vail
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Pinal County
Pinal County is in the central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. According to the 2020 census, the population of the county was 425,264, making it Arizona's third-most populous county. The county seat is Florence. The county was founded in 187 ...
# St George Parish,
Apache Junction
Apache Junction is a city in Pinal and Maricopa counties in the state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,499, most of whom lived in Pinal County. It is named for the junction of the Apache Trail and Old West Highway. Th ...
# Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish,
Florence
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# St James Parish,
Coolidge
# Our Lady of Grace Parish,
Maricopa
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* Maricopa, Arizona, United States, a city
** Maricopa Freeway, a piece of I-10 in Metropolitan Phoenix
** Maricopa station, an Amtrak station in Maricopa, Arizona
* Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
* Marico ...
# St Michael the Archangel,
Florence
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# St Anthony of Padua Parish, Casa Grande
# St Francis of Assisi Parish,
Superior
# St Helen of the Cross,
Eloy
# St Helen,
Oracle
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Description
The word '' ...
# St Bartholomew,
San Manuel
# Blessed Sacrament,
Mammoth
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# Infant Jesus of Prague,
Kearny
# St Mary Mission,
Stanfield
Santa Cruz County
# St. Ann's Parish,
Tubac
Tubac is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,191 at the 2010 census. The place name "Tubac" is an English borrowing from a Hispanicized form of the O'odham name ''Cuwak'', which tr ...
# Most Holy Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Parish,
Rio Rico
# San Felipe de Jesús Parish,
Nogales
# Sacred Heart Parish, Nogales
# St Therese of Lisieux Parish,
Patagonia
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Yuma County
# St Jude Thaddeus,
San Luis
# Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Somerton Somerton may refer to:
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* Somerton Park, South Australia, a seaside Adelaide suburb
** Somerton Man, unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead in 1948 on the Somerton Park beach
* Somerton, Victoria ...
# Immaculate Conception Parish,
Yuma
# St Francis of Assisi Parish, Yuma
# St John Neumann Parish, Yuma
# St Joseph Mission,
Wellton
See also
*
Catholic Church by country
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*
Catholic Church in the United States
With 23 percent of the United States' population , the Catholic Church is the country's second largest religious grouping, after Protestantism, and the country's largest single church or Christian denomination where Protestantism is divided i ...
*
Ecclesiastical Province of Santa Fe
*
Global organisation of the Catholic Church
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*
List of Roman Catholic archdioceses
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Many smaller countries, as well as large countries with small Catholic po ...
(by country and continent)
*
List of Catholic dioceses (alphabetical)
This is a growing list of territorial Catholic dioceses and ordinariates in communion with the Holy See. There are approximately 3,000 actual (i.e., non-titular) dioceses in the Catholic Church (including the eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Ch ...
(including archdioceses)
*
List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
As of October 5, 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,248 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, apostolic exarchates, apostolic administrations, apost ...
(including archdioceses)
*
List of the Catholic dioceses of the United States
This is the list of the Catholic dioceses and archdioceses of the United States which includes both the dioceses of the Latin Church, which employ the Roman Rite and other Latin liturgical rites, and various other dioceses, primarily the eparchi ...
References
Sources and external links
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson Official SiteArizona Catholic ConferenceSt. Gianna Oratory, Institute of Christ the King in Tucson
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Diocese of Tucson
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson ( la, Dioecesis Tucsonensis, es, Diócesis de Tucson) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southwestern region of the United States. It is a suffragan see of the Metrop ...
Roman Catholic
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*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
Culture of Tucson, Arizona
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century
1897 establishments in Arizona Territory
Tucson
, "(at the) base of the black ill
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Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004