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Suffragan diocese Salina, Kansas, United States

Diocese of Salina

Salinen(sis)

The Diocese of Salina is a Latin Church diocese in north-central Kansas, erected in 1887 as the Diocese of Concordia and renamed Salina in 1944. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Sacred Heart Cathedral, in Salina, United States.

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Established
1887
Catholics
46,671
Priests
74
Territory
69,114 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Gerald L. Vincke
Born
9 July 1964
Birthplace
Saginaw

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The cathedral

Sacred Heart Cathedral stands in Salina, 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

Northern Kansas in the United States is the territory of the Diocese of Salina (Latin: Dioecesis Salinensis). Founded in 1887 as the Diocese of Concordia, it took its present name in 1944 when it was renamed the Diocese of Salina. It belongs as a suffragan to the metropolitan Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.