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Suffragan diocese Tucson, Arizona, United States

Diocese of Tucson

Tucsonen(sis)

Latin Church

The Diocese of Tucson is a Latin Church diocese covering nine counties of southern Arizona, erected in 1897 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. James Misko was installed as its eighth bishop on February 20, 2026.

On the map

Esri
Tucson, 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
1897
Catholics
382,123
Priests
179
Territory
110,611 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
James Misko

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The cathedral

St. Augustine Cathedral stands in Tucson, 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

Southern Arizona in the United States forms the territory of the Diocese of Tucson (Latin: Dioecesis Tucsonensis, Spanish: Diócesis de Tucson), a Roman Catholic diocese whose mother church is St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson. It stands as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe.

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