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Suffragan diocese Wichita, Kansas, United States

Diocese of Wichita

Vichiten(sis)

Latin Church

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.

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Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, in Wichita, United States.

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Established
1887
Catholics
120,527
Priests
126
Territory
51,854 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Carl A. Kemme
Born
14 August 1960
Birthplace
Effingham

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The cathedral

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Wichita, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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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.

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