Diocese of Marquette Diœcesis Marquettensis | |
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 St. Peter Cathedral | |
 Coat of arms | |
| 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 | |
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| 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.