The ''Catholic Standard'', founded in 1951, is the official weekly newspaper for the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington The Archdiocese of Washington () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States. The Archdiocese of Washington is home to the Ca ...

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webpage. Catholic Standard website. Retrieved 2010-09-07. One of two newspapers published by Carroll Publishing Company, the ''Catholic Standard'' serves the nearly 600,000 Catholics living in the nation's capital and the five surrounding the

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counties of Calvert, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's, and St. Mary's. Its sister publication, '' El Pregonero'', is the D.C. area's oldest Spanish-language weekly. The publisher of both newspapers is the Archbishop of Washington, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, whose weekly column "What I Have Seen and Heard" appears in both papers and on both websites. The newspaper circulates approximately 46,000 copies each week, mostly delivered by U.S. mail to subscribers and parishes of the archdiocese. Prior to the ''Catholic Standard''s founding in 1951, Catholics in the Archdiocese of Washington were served by a regional edition of the ''Catholic Review'', the official newspaper of the

Archdiocese of Baltimore The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Baltimore () is the archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in northern and western Maryland in the United States. It is the metropolitan see of the Ecclesiastical Province of Baltimore. The Archd ...

. The ''Catholic Standard''s founding editor was Father

Philip Hannan Philip Matthew Hannan (May 20, 1913 – September 29, 2011) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, Archdiocese of Washington from ...

, who went on to become an auxiliary bishop in Washington and the archbishop of New Orleans.

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