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Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Dubuquensis | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | 30 counties in Northeastern Iowa |
Ecclesiastical province | Dubuque |
Coordinates | 42°29′06″N 90°40′31″W / 42.48500°N 90.67528°W |
Statistics | |
Area | 17,400 sq mi (45,000 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2018[1]) 1,010,471 193,360 (19.1%) |
Parishes | 166 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | July 28, 1837 (187 years ago) |
Cathedral | St. Raphael's Cathedral |
Patron saint | St. Raphael St. John Vianney[2] |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Thomas Robert Zinkula |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Thomas Robert Zinkula |
Bishops emeritus | Jerome Hanus, O.S.B. Michael Owen Jackels |
Map | |
Website | |
dbqarch.org |
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque (Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Dubuquensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the northeastern quarter of the state of Iowa in the United States.
It includes all the Iowa counties north of Polk, Jasper, Poweshiek, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar, and Clinton counties, and east of Kossuth, Humboldt, Webster and Boone counties. The archdiocese has an area of about 17,400 square miles (45,000 km2).
It was founded as a diocese in 1837 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1893. In 1947, William Menster of the archdiocese became the first priest to set foot on Antarctica. Starting in the 1990s the archdiocese faced sexual abuse scandal.
The Archdiocese of Dubuque is a metropolitan archdiocese. There are three suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province under Dubuque's metropolitan archbishop: the Dioceses of Davenport, Des Moines, and Sioux City.[1]