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 in the United States. Its territorial remit encompasses the District of Columbia and the counties of Calvert, Charles, Montgomery, P ...

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webpage. Catholic Standard website. Retrieved 2010-09-07. One of two newspapers published by

Carroll Publishing Company Carroll Publishing Company is a 501(c)(3) corporation owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.) and tasked with publishing the two official weekly newspapers of the archdiocese, the ''Catholic Standard'' and, in Spanish, ''El Pre ...

, the ''Catholic Standard'' serves the nearly 600,000 Catholics living in the nation's capital and the five surrounding the

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

counties of Calvert, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's, and St. Mary's. Its sister publication, ''

El Pregonero ''El Pregonero'' is the official Spanish-language newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., published by ''Carroll Publishing Company''. It was first published in 1977 by the Spanish Catholic Center, making it the oldest Sp ...

'', 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 ( la, link=no, Archidiœcesis Baltimorensis) is the premier (or first) see of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in the United States. The archdiocese comprises the City of Baltimore and nine of Mar ...

. 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 Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington from 1956 to 1965 and as the eleventh archbishop of the Archdio ...

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

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