Diocese of Baker Dioecesis Bakeriensis | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | 18 counties in Eastern Oregon |
Ecclesiastical province | Province of Portland |
Statistics | |
Area | 173,013 km2 (66,801 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2012) 509,474 34,142[1] (6.7%) |
Parishes | 31 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | June 19, 1903 |
Cathedral | St. Francis de Sales Cathedral |
Patron saint | St. Francis de Sales |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Liam Stephen Cary |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Alexander King Sample |
Map | |
Website | |
dioceseofbaker.org |
The Diocese of Baker (Latin: Dioecesis Bakeriensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Eastern Oregon in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Portland.
While Saint Francis de Sales Cathedral is located in Baker City, the pastoral offices are in Redmond. The Diocese of Baker "includes almost 67,000 square miles in Oregon and has a population of 526,760 people, of whom 34,375, or seven percent, are Catholic".[2]