Archdiocese of Saint Louis Archidiœcesis Sancti Ludovici | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | St. Louis City and ten counties in eastern Missouri |
Ecclesiastical province | St. Louis |
Statistics | |
Area | 5,968 sq mi (15,460 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2017) 2,255,800 514,178 (22.8%) |
Parishes | 178 |
Schools | 112 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | July 18, 1826 (198 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis |
Patron saint | Saint Louis IX(Primary) Saint Vincent DePaul Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne(Secondary)[1] |
Secular priests | 301 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Mitchell T. Rozanski |
Auxiliary Bishops | Mark Steven Rivituso |
Bishops emeritus | Raymond Leo Burke Robert Joseph Hermann Robert James Carlson |
Map | |
Website | |
archstl.org |
The Archdiocese of St. Louis (Latin: Archidiœcesis Sancti Ludovici) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church that covers the City of St. Louis and the Missouri counties of Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Perry, Saint Charles, Saint Francois, Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis, Warren, and Washington.
It is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province containing three suffragan sees: Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, the Diocese of Jefferson City, and the Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph.[citation needed]
It is led by Archbishop, Mitchell Thomas Rozanski, formerly the Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts.[2] The archdiocesan cathedral is the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.