The Archdiocese of Detroit ( la, Archidiœcesis Detroitensis) is a

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ecclesiastical territory or

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of the

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covering the

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counties of Lapeer, Macomb, Monroe,

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, St. Clair, and Wayne. It is the metropolitan archdiocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit, which includes all dioceses in the state of Michigan. In addition, in 2000 the archdiocese accepted pastoral responsibility for the Catholic Church in the

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, which consists of Saint Ignatius Parish on

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(the Archdiocese of Kingston maintains a mission ''sui iuris'' jurisdiction over the

). Established as the Diocese of Detroit on March 8, 1833, it was elevated to archiepiscopal status on May 22, 1937. Ste. Anne's in Detroit is the second oldest continuously-operating Catholic parish in the United States dating from July 26, 1701; it now serves a large Hispanic congregation. The

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, located at 9844

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, in

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has served as the

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since 1938. Earlier cathedrals were: Ste. Anne de Detroit, 1833 to 1848; Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 1848 to 1877;, 1877 to 1890, St. Aloysius (as pro-cathedral), 1890 to 1938, St. Patrick's Church at 124 Adelaide Street.

History

Before the Diocese of Detroit was formed, Michigan had been under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Quebec from 1701 until sometime after 1796; ''de facto'' American sovereignty was established in that year. At the time, the Diocese of Baltimore encompassed the whole of the United States. Upon the creation of diocesan seats at Bardstown (1808) and later, at

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(1821), Detroit and Michigan were assigned to those sees.

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formed the Diocese of Detroit March 8, 1833, and named

Frederick Rese Frederick Rese (or Résé) (February 6, 1791 – December 29, 1871) was a German-born American Roman Catholic bishop who served as the first Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Detroit from 1833 until his death. Life Rese was born in Vienenburg, ...

as its first bishop. At the time it covered

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and the Dakotas to the Missouri River. In 1843, all territory of the diocese not incorporated into the State of Michigan was transferred to the Diocese of Milwaukee. On July 29, 1853,

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formed the Vicarate Apostolic of Upper Michigan, with responsibility for the

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. The territory of the diocese would be further reduced to its current size by the organization of the dioceses of

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(1882),

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(1937), and shortly after the see was elevated to the status of an archdiocese,

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(1938). The son of Prussian Polish immigrants, Rev. John A. Lemke, born in Detroit on February 10, 1866, was the first native-born Roman Catholic priest of Polish descent to be ordained in America. He was baptized at St. Mary Roman Catholic Church (1843), at the corner of St. Antoine and Croghan (Monroe Street), on February 18, 1866, attended St. Albertus for his primary education, and studied at Detroit College (now the

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), where he received a bachelor's degree in 1884. After attending St. Mary's in Baltimore, he completed his theological studies at St. Francis Seminary in Monroe, Michigan, and he was ordained by Bishop John Samuel Foley in 1889. His added confirmation name was Aloysius.Treppa, Alan R
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''St. Albertus.org''. Retrieved on July 25, 2008. In January 1989, Cardinal

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implemented a controversial plan to close 30 churches within the city of Detroit. He also ordered 25 other parishes to improve their situation or also face closure. The plan resulted from a five-year study which analyzed maintenance costs, priest availability, parish income and membership before recommending closure of 43 parishes. The Associationa of Religion Data Archives indicated a Catholic membership in the archdiocese of 907,605. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit

On May 5, 2011, Archbishop

Allen Vigneron Allen Henry Vigneron (born October 21, 1948) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the current archbishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan and Ecclesiastical Superior of the Cayman Islands, serving since 2009. V ...

announced that

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approved his request to name

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as patroness of Detroit. The Papal decree stated that Saint Anne has been the city's patroness since time immemorial. On February 21, 2012, Vigneron announced a second plan to consolidate churches to address declining membership and clergy availability within the archdiocese. Under the plan, two parishes would close in 2012 and 60 others were to consolidate into 21 by the end of 2013. Six additional parishes were asked to submit a viable plan to repay debt or merge with other churches and the remaining 214 parishes in the archdiocese were asked to submit plans by the end of 2012 to share resources or merge. On June 3, 2017, the archdiocese adopted a new coat of arms featuring the archdiocesan patroness St. Anne, three stars representing the Trinity, a door representing Blessed

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of Detroit, and waves representing the

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. It replaced a coat of arms featuring antlers and

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s that was adopted upon the diocese's elevation to an archdiocese in 1937. In 2014, the Archdiocese of Detroit began a missionary transformation with a Year of Prayer. During 2016, listening sessions were held at every parish to learn how the faithful felt the Archdiocese of Detroit could move from maintenance to mission. In November 2016, Archbishop Vigneron led a Synod during which over 400 participants – clergy, religious and laity – gathered to pray, share and discern a plan to renew the Church in Detroit. The fruit of those efforts was Archbishop Vigneron’s pastoral letter, ''Unleash the Gospel'', released on the Feast of Pentecost 2017. In this letter, Archbishop gave the roadmap for the missionary transformation of the Archdiocese of Detroit. This foundational document is the repository of the graces of Synod 16 that allows the work of the movement to unleash the Gospel to move forward with confidence, focus and resolve.

Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis

The Archdiocese of Detroit first implemented its Policy on the Sexual Abuse of Minors by Clergy in 1988. The current, revised policy takes into consideration events and experiences of the past 30+ years, including The Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People (the Dallas Charter), which was enacted in 2002 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The Archdiocese of Detroit fully complies with the provisions of the Dallas Charter, including restricting the ministry of any priest against whom there is a “credible allegation” of the sexual abuse of a minor or vulnerable person, and the permanent removal from ministry of any priest subsequent to a determination of clerical sexual abuse by a canonical (Church law) process. Like all other U.S. dioceses, the Archdiocese of Detroit is subject to an independent compliance audit annually. Another key provision of the Charter involves safe-environment training for all clerics serving in the Archdiocese of Detroit (including those who incardinate/transfer here or are in the area under different circumstances – e.g., as a student – and want to serve publicly in priestly ministry); priest candidates at Sacred Heart Major Seminary; as well as lay personnel, volunteers and students. Tens of thousands of individuals have been trained in the Archdiocese of Detroit over the past 17 years. In 2002, a newly constituted Review Board was established to consider all reports of abuse and to advise the Archbishop. The Board is led by a retired Michigan Appeals Court Judge who was key in the drafting and adoption of the state’s first Victim’s Rights Act. Other individuals currently serving on the board include a retired prosecutor who established and led Wayne County’s first dedicated child abuse unit; a child psychologist; a health care executive; a former superintendent of Catholic schools; and an archdiocesan pastor. Pursuant to a 2002 agreement with the six Michigan county prosecutors within the Archdiocese of Detroit, every complaint received by the Archdiocese of Detroit is immediately turned over to civil authorities, regardless of its source or when the alleged abuse took place. No complaints are held back, pre-screened or disregarded. The Archdiocese fully cooperates with law enforcement. Similarly, every complaint is considered by the Review Board. Regardless of what finding or course of action civil authorities may pursue, if a complaint is found by the Review Board to be credible, the priest or deacon is restricted from ministry pending further investigation and resolution of the matter. The Archdiocese considers a complaint to be credible if it has a “semblance of truth,” meaning the allegation seems to be neither manifestly false nor frivolous; it appears to be or could possibly be true. Complaints involving non-clerical personnel are processed pursuant to the Archdiocesan Code of Conduct. In 2019, a Vatican-mandated protocol was adopted in the United States for reporting allegations of sexual abuse by bishops. In the Archdiocese of Detroit, no priest or deacon with a credible complaint against him is allowed to continue in active ministry during the time his case is under review by the Church or civil authorities. Those priests who are restricted and/or removed from ministry are monitored by a retired parole officer to ensure compliance with the strict limitations on their public ministry.

Bishops

Bishops of Detroit

(1833–1871)
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Peter Paul Lefevere Peter Paul Lefevere, or Lefebre (April 30, 1804 – March 4, 1869), was a 19th-century Belgian born bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He was a missionary priest in the states of Missouri, Illinois and Iowa before he served as c ...

(

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1841–1869); died before succession # Caspar Borgess (1871–1887) #

John Samuel Foley John Samuel Foley (November 5, 1833 – January 5, 1918) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Detroit from 1888 until his death in 1918. Biography John Foley was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Matt ...

(1888–1918) # Michael Gallagher (1918–1937)

Archbishops of Detroit

# Cardinal

Edward Aloysius Mooney Edward Aloysius Mooney (May 9, 1882 – October 25, 1958) was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Detroit from 1937 until his death, and was made a cardinal in 1946. Early life and ministry Edward M ...

(1937–1958) # Cardinal

John Francis Dearden John Francis Dearden (October 15, 1907 – August 1, 1988) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Detroit from 1958 to 1980, and was created a cardinal in 1969. He previously served as Bishop of Pittsbur ...

(1958–1980) # Cardinal

Edmund Casimir Szoka Edmund Casimir Szoka (September 14, 1927 – August 20, 2014) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Until 2006, he was Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and ...

(1981–1990), appointed President of the

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and later President of the

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and Governatorate of Vatican City State # Cardinal

Adam Joseph Maida Adam Joseph Maida (born March 18, 1930) is an American Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Maida served as the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit, Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan from 1 ...

(1990–2009) #

Allen Henry Vigneron Allen Henry Vigneron (born October 21, 1948) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the current archbishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan and Ecclesiastical Superior of the Cayman Islands, serving since 2009. Vi ...

(2009–present)

Current auxiliary bishops of Detroit

Donald Hanchon Donald Francis Hanchon (born October 9, 1947), is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit since 2011. Biography Early life Donald Hanchon was born in Jack ...

(2011–present) *

Arturo Cepeda José Arturo Cepeda Escobedo (May 15, 1969) is a Mexican Americans, Mexican-American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as an auxiliary bishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit, Archdiocese of Detroit since ...

(2011–present) *

Gerard William Battersby Gerard William Battersby (born May 15, 1960) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit since 2016. Biography Early life Gerard Battersby was born in Detroit, Michiga ...

(2016–present) *

Robert Joseph Fisher Robert Joseph Fisher (born September 24, 1959) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit since 2016. Biography Early life Robert Fisher was born in Detroit ...

(2016–present) *

Paul Fitzpatrick Russell Paul Fitzpatrick Russell (born May 2, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in May 2022. He was previously the Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Azerbai ...

(2022-present), holds the title of Archbishop ''ad personam''.

Former auxiliary bishops of Detroit

* Edward D. Kelly (1910–1919), appointed

Bishop of Grand Rapids The Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids ( la, Dioecesis Grandcataractensis) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in western Michigan, in the United States. It comprises 80 parishes in 11 counties in West Michigan. It is a suffragan see to ...

* Joseph C. Plagens (1924–1935), appointed Bishop of Sault-Sainte Marie-Marquette *

Stephen Stanislaus Woznicki Stephen Stanislaus Woznicki (August 17, 1894 – December 10, 1968) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Saginaw in Michigan from 1950 to 1968. He previously served as an auxiliary bish ...

(1937–1950), appointed Bishop of Saginaw *

Allen James Babcock Allen James Babcock (June 17, 1898 – June 27, 1969) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the seventh Bishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1954 to 1969. Biography Early life Babcock was born on June 17, 1898, in ...

(1947–1954), appointed

Alexander M. Zaleski Alexander Mieceslaus Zaleski (June 24, 1906 – May 16, 1975) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Lansing in Michigan from 1965 until his death in 1975. He previously served as an auxil ...

(1950–1964), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Lansing and subsequently succeeded to that see *

John Anthony Donovan John Anthony Donovan (August 5, 1911 – September 18, 1991) was a Canadian-born prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Toledo in Ohio from 1967 to 1980. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archd ...

(1954–1967), appointed Bishop of Toledo *

Henry Edmund Donnelly Henry Edmund Donnelly (August 28, 1904 – November 4, 1967) was an American Bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1954 to 1967. Biography Born in Hudson, Michigan, Henry Donnelly was o ...

(1954–1967) * Joseph M. Breitenbeck (1965–1969), appointed

Walter Joseph Schoenherr Walter Joseph Schoenherr (February 28, 1920 – April 27, 2007) was an American bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1968 until 1995. Biography Born in Center Line, Michigan, Sch ...

(1968–1995) *

Thomas Gumbleton Thomas John Gumbleton (born January 26, 1930) is an American social activist and retired prelate of the Catholic Church. Gumbleton served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1968 to 2006. According to Gumbleton, the Vatic ...

(1968–2006) *

Joseph Leopold Imesch Joseph Leopold Imesch (June 21, 1931 – December 22, 2015) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois from 1979 to 2006. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archd ...

(1973–1979), appointed Bishop of Joliet in Illinois * Arthur Henry Krawczak (1973–1982) * Dale Joseph Melczek (1982–1995), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Gary, and subsequently succeeded to that see after collateral assignment as

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of the Diocese of Gary (1992–1995) * Patrick R. Cooney (1982–1989), appointed Bishop of Gaylord * Moses Anderson, SSE (1982–2003) *

Bernard Joseph Harrington Bernard Joseph Harrington (born September 6, 1933) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona in Minnesota from 1999 to 2009 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Mich ...

(1993–1998), appointed Bishop of Winona * Kevin Michael Britt (1993–2002), appointed Coadjutor of Grand Rapids and subsequently succeeded to that see *

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 ...

(1996–2001), appointed Bishop of New Ulm *

Leonard Paul Blair Leonard Paul Blair (born April 12, 1949) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hartford in Connecticut since December 16, 2013. Blair previously served as bishop of the Diocese of ...

(1999–2003), appointed Bishop of Toledo *

Earl Boyea Earl Alfred Boyea Jr. (born April 10, 1951) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been serving as the bishop of the Diocese of Lansing in Michigan since 2008. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese ...

(2002–2008), appointed Bishop of Lansing * John M. Quinn (2003–2008), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Winona and subsequently succeeded to that see * Francis R. Reiss (2003–2015) * Walter A. Hurley (2003–2005), appointed

Daniel E. Flores Daniel Ernesto Flores (born August 28, 1961) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been the Bishop of Brownsville in Texas since December 2009. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan f ...

(2006–2009), appointed Bishop of Brownsville * Michael J. Byrnes (2011–2016), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Agana (Guam) and subsequently succeeded to that see

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

* Camillus Paul Maes, appointed Bishop of Covington in 1884 * Francis Clement Kelley, appointed Bishop of Oklahoma City in 1924 * William Francis Murphy, appointed Bishop of Saginaw in 1938 * Kenneth Edward Untener, appointed Bishop of Saginaw in 1980 * Alexander Joseph Brunett, appointed Bishop of Helena in 1994 * Jeffrey Marc Monforton, appointed Bishop of Steubenville in 2012 * Robert John McClory, appointed Bishop of Gary in 2019

Churches and regions

The Detroit Archdiocese is divided into four administrative regions: Central (City of Detroit); Northeast (including Macomb and St. Clair Counties), Northwest (including

and Lapeer Counties), and South (including

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, the

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area, and the cities of Dearborn,

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, and

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). Each of the four regions is further divided into smaller administrative areas known as vicariates. A list of churches in each of these regions and vicariates is found at

List of Roman Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Detroit This is a list of current and former Roman Catholicism in the United States, Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. The Detroit Archdiocese is divided into four administrative regions: Central (City of Detroit); Nor ...

Schools

Mercy High School Farmington Hills Michigan

As of 2013 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit had 96 schools with 30,000 students. As of 2013 there are four Catholic grade schools and three Catholic high schools in the City of Detroit, with all of them in the city's west side. In the 1964-1965 school year, there were 360 schools operated by the archdiocese, with about 110 grade schools in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park and 55 high schools in those three cities. There were a total of 203,000 students in the Catholic schools. The Catholic school population has decreased due to the increase of charter schools, increasing tuition at Catholic schools, the small number of African-American Catholics, White Catholics moving to suburbs, and the decreased number of teaching nuns.

Universities and colleges

Madonna University Madonna University is a private Roman Catholic university in Livonia, Michigan. It was founded as the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Junior College by the Felician Sisters in 1937. It became Madonna College in 1947 and Madonna Unive ...

Marygrove College Marygrove College was a private Roman Catholic graduate college in Detroit, Michigan, affiliated with the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It announced its closure on December 17, 2019, at end of the fall semester. History T ...

(closed in December 2019) *

Sacred Heart Major Seminary Sacred Heart Major Seminary is a private Roman Catholic seminary in Detroit, Michigan. It is affiliated with the Archdiocese of Detroit. In 2016–2017, 107 seminarians, representing eleven dioceses and two religious orders were enrolled in cl ...

Photo gallery

Image:FelicianSistersLivoniaChapel.jpg, Chapel (1961) of the

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in Livonia, Michigan - architectural sculpture by

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. Image:SouthfieldMiWordofFaithChapelEntrance.jpg, The former ''Duns Scotus College'', once a

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in Southfield, is now the non-denominational ''Word of Faith''. Image:SouthfieldMiWordofFaithChapelSouth.jpg, Former Duns Scotus College in Southfield. Image:CardinalAdamMaida.jpg, Cardinal Maida outside of the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit

Suffragan sees

Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit map 1

Diocese of Gaylord The Diocese of Gaylord ( la, Diœcesis Gaylordensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Northern Michigan region of the United States. It comprises the twenty-one most northern counties of the lo ...

Diocese of Grand Rapids The Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids ( la, Dioecesis Grandcataractensis) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in western Michigan, in the United States. It comprises 80 parishes in 11 counties in West Michigan. It is a suffragan see to ...

Diocese of Kalamazoo The Diocese of Kalamazoo is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, ...

Diocese of Lansing The Diocese of Lansing ( la, Diœcesis Lansingensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church located in the south-central portion of Michigan around Lansing. It encompasses an area of including the counties o ...

* Diocese of Marquette *

Diocese of Saginaw The Diocese of Saginaw ( la, Dioecesis Saginavensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church covering eleven County (United States), counties in Michigan. It was founded on February 26, 1938; the first bish ...

Notes

References and further reading

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External links

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit official site
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at http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org
"Letter from Kerala Catholic Association to Rev. Adam J. Maida, Archbishop of Detroit" in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
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1833 establishments in Michigan Territory