Metropolitan Archdiocese of Washington Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Vashingtonensis | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Territory | Washington, D.C. and Montgomery, Prince George's, St. Mary's, Calvert, and Charles counties in Maryland[1] |
| Ecclesiastical province | Washington, D.C. |
| Headquarters | Hyattsville, Maryland, U.S. |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 2,104 sq mi (5,450 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2017) 2,980,005 655,601[2] (22.0%) |
| Parishes | 139 |
| Schools | 93 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | July 29, 1939[3][4] (85 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle |
| Patron saint | Blessed Virgin Mary in her Motherhood[5] |
| Secular priests | 262 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Wilton Daniel Gregory |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Roy Edward Campbell Juan Esposito-Garcia Evelio Menjivar-Ayala |
| Bishops emeritus | Donald William Wuerl |
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| Website | |
| adw.org | |
The Archdiocese of Washington (Latin: Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Vashingtonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States.
The Archdiocese of Washington is home to the Catholic University of America[6] and Georgetown University. The archdiocese is also home to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The only suffragan diocese of the archdiocese is the Diocese of Saint Thomas.
The mother church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in downtown Washington. As of 2024, Wilton Gregory serves as the Archbishop of Washington.
- ^ "Archdiocese of Washington".
- ^ "Statistics". Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. December 6, 2016. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
- ^ "75th Anniversary". Archdiocese of Washington. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, then-archbishop of Washington, celebrated a special Mass for the 75th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Washington at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on September 21, 2014.
- ^ Although the archdiocese was created on July 29, 1939, it shared its first archbishop with the Archdiocese of Baltimore — Archbishop Curley — who continued to administer the two archdioceses as a single unit, until Washington's first residential archbishop was appointed on November 15, 1947. Most Rev. Michael J. Curley Archived February 21, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Archdiocese of Baltimore. Retrieved on November 19, 2016. Archbishops of the Modern Era Archived November 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Archdiocese of Baltimore. Retrieved on 2016-11-19.
- ^ "Acta Apostolicae Sedis 47 (1955) 209-210".
- ^ "About Us". The Catholic University of America. Retrieved February 1, 2017.