Diocese of Marquette Diœcesis Marquettensis | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | Counties of Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Luce, Mackinac, Marquette, Menominee, Ontonagon, and Schoolcraft |
Ecclesiastical province | Detroit |
Statistics | |
Area | 16,281 sq mi (42,170 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2004) 317,616 68,360 (21.5%) |
Parishes | 74 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | July 29, 1853 (171 years ago) |
Cathedral | St. Peter Cathedral |
Patron saint | St. Peter[1] |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | John Francis Doerfler |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Allen Vigneron |
Bishops emeritus | James Henry Garland |
Map | |
Website | |
dioceseofmarquette.org |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Marquette (Latin: Diœcesis Marquettensis) is an ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church, encompassing the Upper Peninsula region of Michigan in the United States. The diocese is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Detroit. Its cathedral is St. Peter Cathedral in Marquette, which replaced Holy Name of Mary Pro-Cathedral at Sault Ste. Marie.