Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA
Latin Church · United States
The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA is a personal (non-territorial) Latin Church jurisdiction established in 1985 to provide pastoral care to Catholics in the U.S. armed forces, veterans affairs facilities, and government service abroad. Its archbishop is Timothy P. Broglio, installed in 2008.
The see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1985
- Annuario code
- 001000371
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,800,000
- Priests
- 635
- Catholics per priest
- 2,835
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
- Archbishop
- Timothy P. Broglio
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
no tiene stands in United States, 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
Catholics serving in the United States Armed Forces, together with their dependents, belong to the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS), officially the Military Ordinariate of United States of America. The jurisdiction ministers to Catholics at military installations in the United States and abroad, to Catholic staff and patients at Veterans Health Administration facilities, and to Catholics at other federal services located overseas.
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 · GCatholic
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].