Diocese of Tyler
Tyleren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tyler, Texas, United States
The Diocese of Tyler is a Latin Church diocese in northeastern Texas, erected in 1987 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. Gregory W. Kelly, previously an auxiliary bishop of Dallas, was named its fifth bishop in December 2024 and installed in February 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 December 1986
- Latin
- Tyleren(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001000027
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 121,212
- Population
- 1,460,387
- Catholic share
- 8.3%
- Priests
- 90
- Catholics per priest
- 1,347
- Extent
- 60,720 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.0
of the people living within its bounds
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
- J. Gregory Kelly
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
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Tyler, 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 Galveston-Houston
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Galveston-HoustonHouston
- Diocese of AustinAustin
- Diocese of BeaumontBeaumont
- Diocese of BrownsvilleBrownsville
- Diocese of Corpus ChristiCorpus Christi
- Diocese of Victoria in TexasVictoria
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Eastern Texas in the United States forms the Diocese of Tyler (Latin: Dioecesis Tylerensis), a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church. Tyler is the episcopal see, and the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception there serves as the mother church. The diocese is a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
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.
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].