Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph
Kansanopolitan(us)-Sancti Iosephi
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kansas City, Missouri, United States
The Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph is a Latin Church diocese in northwestern Missouri formed in 1956 from the merger of the dioceses of Kansas City and St. Joseph (the latter erected 1880). It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and has both a cathedral in Kansas City and a co-cathedral in St. Joseph.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 2 July 1956
- Latin
- Kansanopolitan(us)-Sancti Iosephi
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception and Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001001805
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 137,900
- Population
- 1,513,005
- Catholic share
- 9.1%
- Priests
- 164
- Catholics per priest
- 841
- Extent
- 15,429 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8.9
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
- James Vann Johnston Jr.
- Born
- 16 October 1959
- Birthplace
- Knoxville
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 Kansas City, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Cathedral of St. Joseph.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Saint Louis
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Saint Louis.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Saint LouisSaint Louis
- Diocese of Jefferson CityJefferson City
- Diocese of Springfield-Cape GirardeauSpringfield
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Northwestern Missouri in the United States forms the territory of the Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph (Latin: Dioecesis Kansanopolitanae-Sancti Josephi), a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint Louis. The see's mother church is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, and James Vann Johnston, Jr. serves as 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].