The Diocese of Stockton is a
Latin Church
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ecclesiastical territory or
diocese
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History
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of the
Catholic Church
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in the Central Valley and Mother Lode region of
California
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in the
United States
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. Its
cathedral
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is the
Cathedral of the Annunciation, a
Marian church, in
Stockton. It is a
suffragan diocese
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in the
ecclesiastical province
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of the
metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco
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Extent and statistics
, the Diocese of Stockton pastorally serves 250,692 Catholics (18.4% of 1,361,162 total) on 15,995 km² in 35 parishes with 97 priests (83 diocesan, 14 religious), 51 deacons, 66 lay religious (15 brothers, 51 sisters), 6 seminarians and 12 missions.
It covers the counties of
Alpine
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,
Calaveras,
Mono
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,
San Joaquin,
Stanislaus and
Tuolumne.
The diocese is geographically and ethnically diverse. The majority of the population lives in the San Joaquin Valley. The two major population cities are Stockton and Modesto. The diocese has shown a significant population increase in all counties except Alpine County. The majority of San Joaquin Valley is farming, and there are many migrant camps in which the Church has a presence.
Calaveras, Tuolumne and Alpine counties are located on the western side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Most parishes in these counties date back to the gold rush days. Mono County is on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range and is usually cut off from the rest of the diocese during winter. The parish church located in
Mammoth Lakes
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provides for the spiritual care of vacationers during the winter and summer.
The largest racial/ethnic groups in the Diocese are White and Hispanic. There are also many of Filipino and South East Asian descent. The largest Azorean Portuguese population outside the Azores is found in the Diocese of Stockton. It is estimated that 60% of the diocesan Catholic population is Hispanic. However, this does not imply that Spanish is their first language, only that their heritage is Spanish. The largest Pacific Island community is the Filipino community. Then the next largest ethnic concentration is Vietnamese. The USCCB statement Asian and Pacific Presence lists the Diocese of Stockton as among the top thirty dioceses in the United States with the highest Asian and Pacific Island population. Within the Diocese, Mass is celebrated more than 180 times each Sunday in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin and Laotian. Weekday masses are celebrated in these languages and Vietnamese.
Its fellow suffragans in the -mainly Californian- ecclesiastical province of the
Archbishop of San Francisco
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include the Dioceses of
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,
Oakland
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,
Reno
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Sacramento
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Salt Lake City
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San Jose, and
Santa Rosa
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History
The Diocese of Stockton was formed on January 13, 1962 on Californian territories split off from the
Archdiocese of San Francisco
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(which remains its Metropolitan) and from the
Diocese of Sacramento
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. In 1966 it gained more territory from the Diocese of Sacramento.
Sex abuse and bankruptcy
In 1998 a jury awarded two brothers $30 million in a judgement against the Diocese of Stockton over its handling of a priest who sexually abused the men while they were boys, starting when they were three. At the trial it was revealed that in a 1976 letter to his superiors
Oliver O'Grady, the abusive priest, had admitted to sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl. In 1984 an attorney for the diocese promised to get O'Grady away from children, a promise recorded in a police report. O'Grady abused the boys who later brought the suit from 1978-1991. In 1993 he pleaded guilty to abusing them and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. During the O'Grady trial Mahony claimed that O'Grady was the only accused priest he dealt with in Stockton. Later in 2004 Mahony admitted under oath that parents had confronted him with accusations against another priest in the diocese, Antonio Munoz. In 2014, the Diocese filed for
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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, which was later granted in 2017. As a result of the bankruptcy agreement, approximately $15 million had to be paid to various people who were sexually abused by clergy in the Diocese.
Bishops
Bishops of Stockton
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Hugh Aloysius Donohoe
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(1962-1969), appointed
Bishop of Fresno
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Merlin Guilfoyle (1970-1979)
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Roger Mahony
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(1980-1985), appointed
Archbishop of Los Angeles
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Cardinal
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in 1991)
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Donald Montrose (1985-1999)
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Stephen Blaire
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(1999-2018)
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Myron Joseph Cotta (2018–present)
Other priest of this diocese who became bishop
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Ramon Bejarano, appointed auxiliary bishop of San Diego in 2020
Parishes
The Diocese of Stockton consists of eight deaneries. A list of the parish and mission churches in each deanery is found at
List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton
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Catholic education
High schools
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St. Mary's High School, Stockton
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Central Catholic High School, Modesto
Elementary/Junior high schools
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All Saints Academy, Stockton
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Annunciation School, Stockton
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Presentation Catholic School, Stockton
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Our Lady of Fatima School, Modesto
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Sacred Heart School, Patterson
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Sacred Heart School, Turlock
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St. Anne School, Lodi
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St. Anthony School, Manteca
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St. Bernard School, Tracy
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St. Luke School, Stockton
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St. Stanislaus School, Modesto
Active ministries, movements, and orders
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Communion and Liberation
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(meetings held at St. Luke's Catholic Church)
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Dominican Sisters of San Rafael
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, California (St. Joseph's Medical Center, Stockton)
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Legion of Mary
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(active at numerous parishes)
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Newman Center
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(University of the Pacific / San Joaquin Delta College, Stanislaus State University)
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Oblates of St. Francis de Sales
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(St. Mary's High School, Stockton)
See also
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List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
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(including archdioceses)
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Ecclesiastical Province of San Francisco
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List of Roman Catholic dioceses (alphabetical)
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References
Sources and External links
Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton Official SiteRoman Catholic Archdiocese of San FranciscoCommunion and Liberation, United StatesCommunion and Liberation Stockton School of CommunityDominican Sisters of San Rafael, CaliforniaOblates of St. Francis de Sales, Toledo-Detroit Province
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