Diocese of Camden
Camden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Camden, New Jersey, United States
The Diocese of Camden, erected in 1937, serves six counties of South Jersey. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Newark, it has been led by Bishop Joseph A. Williams since his installation in March 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 9 December 1937
- Latin
- Camden(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001001028
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 487,000
- Population
- 1,414,565
- Catholic share
- 34.4%
- Priests
- 212
- Catholics per priest
- 2,297
- Extent
- 6,967 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 70
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Joseph A. Williams
- Born
- 2 May 1974
- Birthplace
- Minneapolis
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Camden, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Newark
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Newark.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of NewarkNewark
- Diocese of MetuchenMetuchen
- Diocese of TrentonTrenton
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
About 475,000 Catholics across the South Jersey counties of Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem belong to the Diocese of Camden (Latin: Dioecesis Camdensis) in the American state of New Jersey. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Camden serves as its mother church, and as of 2026 Joseph A. Williams is its bishop.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].