Diocese of Corpus Christi Dioecesis Corporis Christi | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | Counties of Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, and a portion of McMullen County |
Ecclesiastical province | Galveston-Houston |
Population - Catholics | 388,878 (69.9%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | March 23, 1912 |
Cathedral | Corpus Christi Cathedral |
Patron saint | Our Lady of Guadalupe[1] |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | William Mulvey |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Daniel DiNardo |
Bishops emeritus | René Henry Gracida Edmond Carmody |
Map | |
Website | |
diocesecc.org |
The Diocese of Corpus Christi (Latin: Dioecesis Corporis Christi) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in southern Texas in the United States.
The Diocese of Corpus Christi is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.