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Suffragan diocese Metuchen, New Jersey, United States

Diocese of Metuchen

Metuchen(sis)

Latin Church

The Diocese of Metuchen is the Latin Church diocese covering Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon, and Warren counties in New Jersey. The see is sede vacante after Bishop James Checchio was named to New Orleans in 2025, with Very Rev. Jonathan S. Toborowsky serving as apostolic administrator.

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Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, in Metuchen, United States.

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Established
1981
Catholics
636,728
Priests
190
Territory
3,697 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Apostolic Administrator
Very Rev. Jonathan S. Toborowsky (Diocesan Administrator)

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi stands in Metuchen, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Established in 1981, the Diocese of Metuchen (Latin: Dioecesis Metuchenis) serves the Catholic Church from the borough of Metuchen in New Jersey, United States. Saint Francis of Assisi Cathedral in Metuchen is its mother church.

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