Diocese of Saint Petersburg Dioecesis Sancti Petri in Florida Diócesis de San Petersburgo | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | Florida: Tampa Bay (Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando and Citrus counties) |
Ecclesiastical province | Miami |
Statistics | |
Population - Total - Catholics | 3,116,283 461,209 (15%) |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | March 2, 1968 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of Saint Jude the Apostle |
Patron saint | Saint Jude[1] |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Gregory Parkes |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Thomas Wenski |
Bishops emeritus | Robert Nugent Lynch |
Map | |
Website | |
dosp.org |
The Diocese of Saint Petersburg (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Petri in Florida) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Tampa Bay region of Gulf Coast Florida.
The Diocese of Saint Petersburg is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Miami. Its mother church is St. Jude the Apostle Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Florida. As of 2023, the current bishop is Gregory Parkes.