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Diocese of New Ulm

Novae Ulmae

The Diocese of New Ulm is a Latin Church diocese in western Minnesota erected in 1957, covering 15 counties. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
18 November 1957
Latin
Novae Ulmae
Patron
Mary, Mother of God
Annuario code
001002380

The see in figures

Catholics
42,068
Population
282,719
Catholic share
14.9%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
47
Catholics per priest
895
Extent
25,545 km²
Catholics per km²
1.6

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
Chad W. Zielinski
Born
8 September 1964
Birthplace
Detroit

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 Holy Trinity stands in New Ulm, 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.

The province of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Western Minnesota is the territory of the Diocese of New Ulm (Latin: Dioecesis Novae Ulmae), a Catholic see suffragan to the metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Its cathedral parish is the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New Ulm.

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.

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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].