Diocese of Wichita
Vichiten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Wichita, Kansas, United States
The Diocese of Wichita is a Latin Church diocese covering 25 counties of south-central and southeastern Kansas, erected in 1887 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. Carl A. Kemme has served as bishop since 2014.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 2 August 1887
- Latin
- Vichiten(sis)
- Patron
- Immaculate Conception
- Annuario code
- 001000153
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 120,527
- Population
- 979,000
- Catholic share
- 12.3%
- Priests
- 126
- Catholics per priest
- 957
- Extent
- 51,854 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.3
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
- Carl A. Kemme
- Born
- 14 August 1960
- Birthplace
- Effingham
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 Wichita, 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 Kansas City in Kansas
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Dodge CityDodge City
- Archdiocese of Kansas City in KansasKansas City
- Diocese of SalinaSalina
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Kansas in the United States, the Catholic Church maintains the Diocese of Wichita (Latin: Dioecesis Wichitensis), a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.
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].