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Suffragan diocese Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph

Kansanopolitan(us)-Sancti Iosephi

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.

On the map

Esri
Kansas City, United States, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1880
Catholics
137,900
Priests
164
Territory
15,429 km²

Parishes and churches

89 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
James Vann Johnston Jr.
Born
16 October 1959
Birthplace
Knoxville

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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.

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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.

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