Suffragan diocese Lubbock, Texas, United States
Diocese of Lubbock
Lubboken(sis)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Lubbock is a Latin Rite see covering 25 counties in West Texas, erected in 1983 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Bishop Robert M. Coerver has led the diocese since 2016.
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- Established
- 1983
- Catholics
- 136,000
- Priests
- 72
- Territory
- 60,532 km²
Parishes and churches
61 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Robert M. Coerver
- Born
- 6 June 1954
- Birthplace
- Dallas
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The cathedral
Cathedral of Christ the King stands in Lubbock, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
West Texas received its own Roman Catholic see when the Diocese of Lubbock (Latin: Dioecesis Lubbokensis) was erected in 1983 as a suffragan of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Antonio. Christ the King Cathedral in Lubbock is the mother church, and Robert Coerver is the bishop.