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.
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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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