Diocese of Reno Diœcesis Renensis | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | Counties of Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey, and Washoe |
Ecclesiastical province | Las Vegas |
Statistics | |
Area | 70,852 sq mi (183,510 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 835,000 132,982 [1] (15.9%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | March 21, 1995[1] |
Cathedral | Cathedral of Saint Thomas Aquinas |
Patron saint | Our Lady of the Snow Holy Family |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Daniel Henry Mueggenborg |
Metropolitan Archbishop | George Leo Thomas |
Bishops emeritus | Phillip Francis Straling Randolph Roque Calvo |
Map | |
Website | |
renodiocese.org |
The Diocese of Reno (Latin: Dioecesis Renensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the northern Nevada region of the United States. It is a suffragan diocese, formerly of the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Francisco and, since May 30, 2023, of the Archdiocese of Las Vegas.[2]
The mother church of the Diocese of Reno is St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno. As of 2023, the current bishop of Reno is Daniel Mueggenborg.