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Diocese of San Bernardino

Bernardinopolitan(us)

The Diocese of San Bernardino is a Latin Church diocese covering San Bernardino and Riverside counties in California, erected in 1978. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and seated at Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
14 July 1978
Latin
Bernardinopolitan(us)
Patron
Saint Bernardine of Siena
Annuario code
001002873

The see in figures

Catholics
1,740,655
Population
4,650,631
Catholic share
37.4%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
270
Catholics per priest
6,447
Extent
70,689 km²
Catholics per km²
25

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
Alberto Rojas
Born
5 January 1965
Birthplace
El Zapote de la Labor

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

Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral stands in San Bernardino, 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 Los Angeles

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Erected in 1978, the Diocese of San Bernardino (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Bernardi, Spanish: Diócesis de San Bernardino) serves Southern California, its jurisdiction taking in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, it has as its cathedral Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral in San Bernardino.

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].