Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis ( la, Archidiœcesis Paulopolitana et Minneapolitana) is a

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of the

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in the

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. It is led by an

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who administers the archdiocese from the cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. The archbishop has both a

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and co-cathedral: the

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, the Cathedral of Saint Paul in

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, and the co-cathedral, the Basilica of Saint Mary in

Minneapolis Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...

. The archdiocese has 188

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es in twelve

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. It counts in its membership an approximate total of 750,000 people. It has two seminaries, the

Saint Paul Seminary The Saint Paul Seminary (SPS) is a Roman Catholic major seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. A part of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, SPS prepares men to enter the priesthood and permanent diaconate, and educates lay men and women o ...

and Saint John Vianney College Seminary. Its official newspaper is ''

The Catholic Spirit ''The Catholic Spirit'' is the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It is a tabloid format publication that circulates to 60,000 households in the Twin Cities area. ''The Catholic Spirit'' is a bi-weekly newspap ...

''.

History

In 1680, a waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River was noted observed in a journal by Father

Louis Hennepin Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, (; 12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollet order (French: ''Récollets'') and an explorer of the interior of North Amer ...

, a Belgian Franciscan

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and explorer. Hennepin named them the ''Chutes de Saint-Antoine'' or the Falls of Saint Anthony after his patron saint, Anthony of Padua. In 1727 René Boucher de La Perrière and Michel Guignas built

Fort Beauharnois Fort Beauharnois was a French fort, serving as a fur trading post and Catholic mission, built on the shores of Lake Pepin, a wide section of the upper Mississippi River, in 1727. The location chosen was on lowlands and the fort was rebuilt in 17 ...

on the shore of

Lake Pepin Lake Pepin is a naturally occurring lake on the Mississippi River on the border between the U.S. states of Minnesota and Wisconsin. It is located in a valley carved by the outflow of an enormous glacial lake at the end of the last Ice Age. The ...

. It was the site of the first Roman Catholic chapel in Minnesota, which was dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel. Eventually it was abandoned as the French sent most of their troops to the east to fight the British in the French and Indian War. Willis, John. "Minnesota." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 14 March 2020 Some French-speaking colonists from Switzerland, having migrated from their original settlements near Fort Garry in Canada to a place seven or eight miles below

Saint Anthony Falls Saint Anthony Falls, or the Falls of Saint Anthony ( dak, italics=no, Owámniyomni, ) located at the northeastern edge of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the only natural major waterfall on the Mississippi River. Throughout the mid-to-late 1 ...

, Bishop Loras of

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, whose diocese included the entire region now called Minnesota, visited

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and the nearby Swiss settlement in 1839, which was called Saint Pierre. In the following year he sent a missionary to Minnesota, Father

Lucien Galtier Lucien Galtier ( – February 21, 1866) was the first Roman Catholic priest who served in Minnesota. He was born in southern France in the town of Saint-Affrique, department of Aveyron. The year of his birth is somewhat uncertain, some sources cl ...

. Galtier learned that a number of settlers, who had left the

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, had settled on the east bank of the Mississippi River. He decided that the area with the settlers was a better location for a church as it was near a steamboat landing, which had the potential for later development. Two French settlers offered a location for a church, and other settlers provided materials and labor to build a log chapel. Father Galtier wrote, "I had previously to this time fixed my residence at Saint Peter's and as the name of

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is generally connected with that of

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... I called it

." With the gradual increase of population about the chapel, the community developed into a village known as Saint Paul's Landing. The original see was canonically erected by Pope Pius IX on July 19, 1850 as the Diocese of Saint Paul of Minnesota, a

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of the

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. The diocese's territory was taken from that of

, and its authority spread over all of

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, which consisted of the area which now composes the states of Minnesota,

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and

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and also comprises the modern archdiocese's

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. Its first ordinary was Bishop

Joseph Crétin Joseph Crétin (19 December 1799 – 22 February 1857) was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Cretin Avenue in St. Paul, Cretin-Derham Hall High School, and Cretin Hall at the University of St. Thomas are named for him. ...

. In addition to the French Canadians large contingents of Irish and German Catholics arrived, who located in St. Paul, and in places along the Mississippi, St. Croix, and Minnesota Rivers.Schaefer, Francis. "Saint Paul (Minnesota)." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 14 Mar. 2020 In November 1851, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet came to St. Paul, and soon opened schools at St. Paul and St. Anthony Falls. In January 1859,

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was named Bishop of St. Paul. The number of Catholics in the diocese continued to grow, with many coming from Bohemia and Poland. The number of priests grew with the increase of the people, and they were so chosen as to correspond to the needs of the parishes. Hospitals were opened at Minneapolis and New Ulm, orphan asylums were erected at St. Paul and Minneapolis, and homes were established for the aged poor. In February 1875, St. Paul was transferred from the ecclesiastical province of St. Louis to that of

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John Ireland

John Ireland was born in Burnchurch, County Kilkenny, Ireland. During the Civil War he served as chaplain to the Fifth Minnesota Regiment. He was appointed coadjutor to Bishop Grace, whom he succeeded in 1884.

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elevated the see to the rank of archdiocese on May 4, 1888 and its name was changed to reflect this.Rainer, Joseph. "Milwaukee." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 13 March 2020 The creation of the

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diminished the territory of the archdiocese by the southern section of Minnesota. Disturbed by reports that Catholic immigrants in eastern cities were suffering from social and economic handicaps, Ireland and Bishop John Lancaster Spalding of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, founded the Irish Catholic Colonization Association. This organization bought land in rural areas to the west and south and helped resettle Irish Catholics from the urban slums. Various settlements such as De Graff, Clontarf (Swift Co.), Adrian (Nobles Co.), Avoca, Fulda (Murry Co.), Graceville (Big Stone Co.), Minneota, and Ghent (Lyon Co.), owe their origin and prosperity to his labours.

Charlotte Grace O'Brien Charlotte Grace O'Brien (23 November 1845 – 3 June 1909) was an Irish author and philanthropist and an activist in nationalist causes and the protection of female emigrants. She is known also as a plant collector. Life Early life Born on 23 ...

, philanthropist and activist for the protection of female emigrants, found that often the illiterate young women were being tricked into prostitution through spurious offers of employment. She proposed an information bureau at Castle Garden, a temporary shelter to provide accommodation for immigrants, and a chapel, all to Archbishop Ireland, who she believed of all the American hierarchy, would be most sympathetic. Archbishop Ireland agreed to raise the matter at the May 1883 meeting of the Irish Catholic Association which endorsed the plan and voted to establish an information bureau at

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, the disembarkation point for immigrants arriving in New York. The Irish Catholic Colonization Association was also instrumental in the establishment of the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the Protection of Irish Immigrant Girls. Ireland was a strong supporter of the temperance movement, and of racial equality. On the other hand, his less than diplomatic relations with Eastern Catholics drove them into the Orthodox Church. The author of ''The Church and Modern Society'' (1897), Ireland opposed the use of foreign languages in American Catholic churches and parochial schools. National (ethnic) parishes were common at the time because of the large influx of immigrants to the U.S. from European countries. In this, he differed from

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, Archbishop of New York, who believed that the more quickly Catholics gave up their native languages, customs, and traditions in order to assimilate into a Protestant culture, the sooner they would forsake their religion as well. Different views on the so-called "Americanization" of the Catholic Church in the United States split the hierarchy in the 1890s.

Name Change

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once again instituted a name change for the see on July 11, 1966. Reflecting the growth of the Catholic Church in the region, it became the "Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis", the name it retains today. Archbishop

John Clayton Nienstedt John Clayton Nienstedt (born March 18, 1947) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota from 2008 to 2015. He previously served as bishop o ...

, succeeded to the post on the retirement of his predecessor, Archbishop Harry Flynn, on May 2, 2008. He stepped down on June 15, 2015 and Bernard Hebda was named the next Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Sexual abuse cases and bankruptcy

On May 31, 2018, the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis agreed to pay victims of clergy sexual abuse a total of $210 million in settlement, which awaited court approval. By the time the settlement was issued, 91 priests who served in the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis were accused of sexually abusing 450 victims. On June 27, 2018, the archdiocese filed for reorganization in order to find enough money to pay for the settlement. Once approved, the settlement became the second largest in any Catholic bankruptcy case in United States history and largest overall for any archdiocese which was forced into bankruptcy. On September 21, 2018, survivors of clergy abuse officially concluded a month-long vote which resulted in the approval the settlement; the vote had started on August 21. The settlement was then approved by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on September 25, 2018. Fr. James Porter and Fr. Curtis Wehmeyer were two of the most notorious predator priests to serve in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. In November 2012, Wehmeyer pled guilty to 20 sex abuse and child pornography charges. In 2013, MPR News obtained a letter revealing that an archdiocesan official, the Rev. Kevin McDonough, had known of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis' decision in 2011 to cover up an allegation suggesting that Wehmeyer had sexually abused two brothers in his white 2006 camper. When the reported abuse took place, the camper was parked outside Blessed Sacrament Church in St. Paul, where Wehmeyer served for six years and where the mother of the boys was working as well. In May 2015, Wehmeyer was

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by the Vatican while serving a five year prison sentence. Though Porter, who would later be convicted in 1993 of sex abusing 28 children while serving in the

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, was never convicted for alleged sex abuse he committed in Minnesota before he left the priesthood in 1974, he would serve four months in a Minnesota prison following a December 1992 conviction involving alleged sex abuse of his children's babysitter. The Minnesota conviction, which also came with a six month prison sentence, was overturned shortly before his 1993 Massachusetts trial and conviction. In May 2018, Fr. John Bertrand was sentenced to 10 years probation after pleading guilty to having sexual contact with a woman at her Mendota Heights home under the guise of mass. In September 2020, a lawsuit was filed alleging that sex abuse was "allowed" to be committed by at least one priest at a Minnesota Catholic music camp managed by Twin Cities-based Catholic music composer

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. Haas himself has faced previous sex abuse allegations as well.

Calls for a grand jury investigation

On August 22, 2018, Jeff Anderson, the St. Paul-based attorney who investigated and sued the archdiocese, called for Minnesota Governor

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to assemble a Grand Jury investigation similar to the one conducted in Pennsylvania. The proposed grand jury investigation would include the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis and all of its five suffragan dioceses. Archbishop Hebda, Judge Tim O'Malley, director of Ministerial Standards and Safe Environment, and Tom Abood, chairman of the Archdiocesan Financial Council and the Reorganization Task Force, issued a joint statement stating that the archdiocese "would cooperate" with a future grand jury investigation. Caroline Burns, press secretary for Governor Dayton, stated that the case was under review and that the Governor would not publicly respond until after completing this review.

Diocesan Synod

In 2019, after the bankruptcy was settled Archbishop Bernard Hebda called for an Archdiocesan Synod to set pastoral priotiries for the future of the diocese. Delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the synod will take place in June 2022.

Bishops

This is a list of the bishops who have served the archdiocese.

Bishops of Saint Paul

(1850–1857) # Thomas Langdon Grace, O.P. (1859–1884) #

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(1884–1888; coadjutor bishop 1875–1884)l elevated to archbishop with elevation of diocese

Archbishops of Saint Paul

# John Ireland (1888–1918) #

Austin Dowling Daniel Austin Dowling (April 6, 1868 – November 29, 1930) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the second archbishop of what was then the Archdiocese of Saint Paul in Minnesota from 1919 until his death. Dowling s ...

(1919–1930) #

John Gregory Murray John Gregory Murray (February 26, 1877 – October 11, 1956) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul in Minnesota from 1931 until his death in 1956. Murray previously se ...

(1931–1956) # William O. Brady (1956–1961); Coadjutor Archbishop (1956) #

Leo Binz Leo Binz (October 31, 1900 – October 9, 1979) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Dubuque (1954–1961) and as Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis (1962–1975). A native of Illinois, he became a ...

(1961–1966); title changed with title of see

Archbishops of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

# Leo Binz (''see above'' 1966–1975)
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Leo Christopher Byrne Leo Christopher Byrne (March 19, 1908 – October 21, 1974) served as the Roman Catholic Coadjutor Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota. Biography Born in Saint Lou ...

, Coadjutor Archbishop (1967–1974); died without succeeding to see # John Robert Roach (1975–1995) #

Harry Joseph Flynn Harry Joseph Flynn (May 2, 1933 – September 22, 2019) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis from 1995 to 2008. He previously served as bishop of the Dioces ...

(1995–2008); Coadjutor Archbishop (1994-1995) #

(2008–2015); Coadjutor Archbishop (2007-2008) # Bernard Hebda (2016–present)

Current auxiliary bishop

* Joseph Andrew Williams (2022-present)

Former auxiliary bishops

John Jeremiah Lawler John Jeremiah Lawler (August 4, 1862 – March 11, 1948) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Lead (later changed to Diocese of Rapid City) in South Dakota from 1916 until his death in 1948. ...

(1910–1916), appointed Bishop of Lead *

James Joseph Byrne James Joseph Byrne (July 28, 1908 – August 2, 1996) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Dubuque from 1962 to 1983, having previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul (1947–1956) and Bishop of Bois ...

(1947–1956), appointed Bishop of Boise and later Archbishop of Dubuque * Leonard Philip Cowley (1957–1973) *

Gerald Francis O'Keefe Gerald Francis O'Keefe (March 30, 1918 – April 12, 2000) was a 20th-century bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul in the state of Minnesota from 1961 to 1966 and bish ...

(1961–1966), appointed Bishop of Davenport *

James P. Shannon James Patrick Shannon (February 16, 1921 – August 28, 2003) was an American laicized Catholic bishop and educator. Biography Early years James Patrick Shannon was born in South St. Paul, Minnesota, on February 16, 1921, from Patrick Joseph ...

(1965–1968)Only U.S. bishop to resign and leave the priesthood in response to the encyclical of

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''. * John Robert Roach (1971–1975), appointed Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis *

Raymond Alphonse Lucker Raymond Alphonse Lucker (February 24, 1927 – September 19, 2001) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of New Ulm in Minnesota from 1976 to 2000. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Ar ...

(1971–1975), appointed Bishop of New Ulm * Paul Vincent Dudley (1976–1978), appointed Bishop of Sioux Falls *

John Francis Kinney John Francis Kinney (June 11, 1937 – September 27, 2019) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of St. Cloud in Minnesota from 1995 to 2013. Kinney previously served as the fifth ...

(1976–1982), appointed Bishop of Bismarck and later Bishop of Saint Cloud * William Henry Bullock (1980–1987), appointed Bishop of Des Moines and later Bishop of Madison * James Richard Ham, M.M. (1980–1990) *

Robert J. Carlson Robert James Carlson (born June 30, 1944) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church. He served as the ninth archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis, Archdiocese of St. Louis in Missouri from 2009 to ...

(1984–1994), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Sioux Falls and later Bishop of Sioux Falls, Bishop of Saginaw, and Archbishop of St. Louis *

Joseph Charron Joseph Léo Charron C.PP.S. is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Charron served as bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines in Iowa from 1994 to 2007 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in Minn ...

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(1990–1994), appointed Bishop of Des Moines *

Lawrence Welsh Lawrence Harold Welsh (February 1, 1935 – January 13, 1999) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota from 1991 to 1999. He previo ...

(1991–1999) * Frederick F. Campbell (1999–2004), appointed Bishop of Columbus *

Richard Pates Richard Edmund Pates (born February 12, 1943) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Pates served as bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines in Iowa from 2008 to 2019 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and M ...

(2000–2008), appointed Bishop of Des Moines * Lee A. Piché (2009–2015), resigned *

Andrew H. Cozzens Andrew Harmon Cozzens (born August 3, 1968) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Crookston in Minnesota since 2021. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese ...

(2013–2021), appointed Bishop of Crookston

Other priests of the diocese who became bishops

* John Loughlin, appointed Bishop of Brooklyn in 1853 * Louis Joseph Mary Theodore de Goesbriand, appointed Bishop of Burlington in 1853 *

James McGolrick James McGolrick (May 1, 1841 – January 23, 1918) was an Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the first bishop of the Diocese of Duluth in Minnesota, serving from 1889 until his death. Biography Early life James McGolr ...

, appointed Bishop of Duluth in 1889 * Patrick Delany, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Hobart, Australia in 1893 * Thomas O'Gorman, appointed Bishop of Sioux Falls in 1896 * James Trobec, appointed Bishop of Saint Cloud in 1897 * Alexander Christie, appointed Bishop of Vancouver Island in 1898 * James John Keane, appointed Bishop of Cheyenne in 1902 *

John Stariha John Nepomucene Stariha (May 12, 1845 – November 28, 1915) was a Slovenian-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the first Bishop of Lead, South Dakota, serving from 1902 to 1909. Biography Early life John Stariha was born on Ma ...

, appointed Bishop of Lead in 1902 *

Joseph Francis Busch Joseph Francis Busch (April 18, 1866—May 31, 1953) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Lead in South Dakota from 1910 to 1915 and bishop of the Diocese of Saint Cloud in Minnesota from 1915 ...

, appointed Bishop of Lead in 1910 * Timothy J. Corbett, appointed Bishop of Crookston in 1910 * Patrick Richard Heffron, appointed Bishop of Winona in 1910 *

James Albert Duffy James Albert Duffy (September 13, 1873 – February 12, 1968) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the first bishop (Catholic Church), bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Island, Diocese of Grand Island in N ...

, appointed Bishop of Kearney in 1913 * Thomas Anthony Welch, appointed Bishop of Duluth in 1925 * James Louis Connolly, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Fall River in 1945 *

Francis Joseph Schenk Francis Joseph Schenk (April 1, 1901 – October 28, 1969) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Crookston in Minnesota (1945–1960) and bishop of the Diocese of Duluth in Minnesota (1960� ...

, appointed Bishop of Crookston in 1945 *

Alphonse James Schladweiler Alphonse James Schladweiler (July 18, 1902—April 3, 1996) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the first bishop of the new Diocese of New Ulm from 1958 to 1975. Biography Early life Alphonse Schladweiler was b ...

, appointed Bishop of New Ulm in 1957 *

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, appointed Bishop of Yakima in 1974 * Peter Forsyth Christensen, appointed Bishop of Superior in 2007 * John Marvin LeVoir, appointed Bishop of New Ulm in 2008 * Paul David Sirba, appointed Bishop of Duluth in 2009 * Donald Edward DeGrood, appointed Bishop of Sioux Falls in 2019

High schools

* Academy of Holy Angels, Richfield *

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, St. Louis Park * Bethlehem Academy, Faribault *

Visitation School Visitation School, also known as Visitation or Vis, is an independent, all-girls, Roman Catholic, college-preparatory, school in Minnesota. It is located in Mendota Heights near Saint Paul. Visitation is a coeducational school for grades Montes ...

, Mendota Heights *

Cretin-Derham Hall Cretin-Derham Hall High School (CDH) is a private, co-educational Catholic high school in Saint Paul, Minnesota operated by the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It is co-sponsored by the Brothers of the Christian Schools and the Sis ...

, St. Paul * Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Minneapolis *

DeLaSalle High School DeLaSalle High School is a Catholic, college preparatory high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is located on Nicollet Island. History DeLaSalle opened in 1900 and has been administered by the De La Salle Brothers (French Christian Brothers ...

, Minneapolis *

Hill-Murray School Hill-Murray School is a coeducational private Catholic school serving grades 6–12. It is located on a site in Maplewood, Minnesota, United States, a suburb of Saint Paul. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, i ...

, Maplewood * Holy Family Catholic High School, Victoria * Providence Academy, Plymouth *

Saint Agnes 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 ...

, St. Paul *

Saint Thomas Academy Saint Thomas Academy (abbr. STA), originally known as St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary and formerly known as St. Thomas Military Academy, is the only all-male, Catholic, college-preparatory, military high school in Minnesota. It is located in Mendota ...

, Mendota Heights *

Totino-Grace High School Totino-Grace High School is a private Catholic high school in Fridley, Minnesota. It is an archdiocesan co-educational Catholic high school in the Lasallian tradition. History Founding In the late 1950s, the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and ...

, Fridley

Independent Catholic schools

Chesterton Academy Chesterton Academy is a private, co-ed, Catholic secondary school in Hopkins, Minnesota, United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Launched in the fall of 2008 by Dale Ahlquist and Tom Bengts ...

, Hopkins *

Holy Spirit Academy Holy Spirit Academy is a private Catholic school in Monticello, Minnesota, in the United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Opened in 2014, Holy Spirit Academy has an integrated program and teac ...

, Monticello

Ecclesiastical Province of St. Paul and Minneapolis

Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Provinces of St

Minnesota

* Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis (Metropolitan See) * Diocese of Crookston * Diocese of Duluth *

Diocese of New Ulm The Diocese of New Ulm ( la, Dioecesis Novae Ulmae) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in western Minnesota, United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan A ...

* Diocese of Saint Cloud * Diocese of Winona–Rochester

North Dakota

Diocese of Bismarck The Diocese of Bismarck ( la, Dioecesis Bismarckiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in North Dakota. The current bishop of the diocese is Bishop David Kagan. It is a suffragan diocese in the eccles ...

* Diocese of Fargo

South Dakota

Diocese of Rapid City The Diocese of Rapid City ( la, Dioecesis Rapidopolitana) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in western South Dakota, United States. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolis (reli ...

* Diocese of Sioux Falls

Seminaries

The Archdiocese has two seminaries, Saint John Vianney College Seminary and the

(both located on the campus of the

University of St. Thomas St. Thomas University or University of St. Thomas may refer to: *Saint Thomas Aquinas University, Colombia *Saint Thomas Aquinas University of the North, Tucumán province, Argentina *St. Thomas University (Canada), Fredericton, New Brunswick *St. ...

). From 1923-1971, it operated a high school seminary,

Nazareth Hall Preparatory Seminary Nazareth Hall Preparatory Seminary (known also as Naz Hall) was a high school seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota serving the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It was founded in 1923 by Archbishop Austin Dowling and was closed in 1971, be ...

. While the majority of archdiocesan seminarians receive their formation at one of the above, some are also sent to

Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary The Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary or IHMS, located at Pacifico Cabalit St., Taloto, Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines, is a diocesan college seminary established in 1950 by Julio Rosales, Bishop of Tagbilaran, in implementation of Canon 1 ...

in the suffragan see of Winona-Rochester and the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

Notable parishes

* Cathedral of Saint Paul,

, mother church of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis * Basilica of Saint Mary,

, first American basilica * Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church,

, oldest church building in continuous use in Minneapolis * Saint Peter's Church, Mendota, oldest active parish

Notes

External links

Official websiteCathedral of Saint Paul''The Catholic Spirit''
the archdiocese's official newspaper

kept by catholic-hierarchy.org (unofficial)] {{Authority control Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis Religious organizations established in 1850 Saint Paul and Minneapolis 1850 establishments in Minnesota Territory Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015