Diocese of Salina Dioecesis Salinensis | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | 31 counties in north-central and northwest Kansas |
Ecclesiastical province | Kansas City in Kansas |
Statistics | |
Area | 26,685 sq mi (69,110 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 342,000 46,671 (14.1%) |
Parishes | 86 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | August 2, 1887 as the Diocese of Concordia; December 23, 1944 as the Diocese of Salina |
Cathedral | Sacred Heart Cathedral |
Patron saint | Our Lady of Perpetual Help[1] |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Gerald Lee Vincke[2] |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Joseph Fred Naumann |
Map | |
Website | |
salinadiocese.org |
The Diocese of Salina (Latin: Dioecesis Salinensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in northern Kansas in the United States.
The episcopal see is in Salina. The diocese was founded as the Diocese of Concordia in 1887 and was renamed in 1944 as the Diocese of Salina.[3] It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.[4]
In 2018, Pope Francis named Gerald Vincke as bishop of Salina.[5]