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Suffragan diocese San Diego, California, United States

Diocese of San Diego

Sancti Didaci

Latin Church

The Diocese of San Diego is a Latin Church diocese covering San Diego and Imperial counties in California, erected in 1936. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, seated at St. Joseph Cathedral, and led since 2025 by Bishop Michael Pham.

On the map

Esri
San Diego, United States, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1936
Catholics
1,386,368
Priests
270
Territory
22,942 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Michael Pham

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The cathedral

St. Joseph Cathedral stands in San Diego, 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

All of San Diego and Imperial counties make up the ecclesiastical territory of the Diocese of San Diego (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Didaci), a Catholic diocese in Southern California, United States and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. St. Joseph Cathedral in San Diego is its mother church, and Michael Pham serves as bishop.

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