Diocese of Grand Island Dioecesis Insulae Grandis | |
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Catholic | |
Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | 28 counties and the parts of Dawson, Lincoln and Keith counties north of the Platte River in central and western Nebraska |
Episcopal conference | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops |
Ecclesiastical region | Region IX |
Ecclesiastical province | Omaha |
Statistics | |
Area | 42,000 sq mi (110,000 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2016) 320,000 56,600 (17.7%) |
Parishes | 73 |
Schools | 11 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established |
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Cathedral | Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
Patron saint | Blessed Virgin Mary |
Secular priests | 63 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Joseph G. Hanefeldt[1] |
Metropolitan Archbishop | George Joseph Lucas |
Bishops emeritus | William Joseph Dendinger |
Map | |
Website | |
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The Diocese of Grand Island (Latin: Dioecesis Insulae Grandis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in northwestern and central Nebraska in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Omaha.[2]
The cathedral parish is the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Grand Island.[3] As of 2023, the bishop of Grand Island is Joseph G. Hanefeldt, who was installed on March 19, 2015.[4]
Insulae Grandis --suffr. di Omaha
Indirizzo: 2708 Old Fair Rd., P.O. Box 1531, Grand Island, NE 68802, U.S.A.
Joseph G. Hanefeldt...el 14 genn. 2015; cons. 19 mar. 2015...