Diocese of Salt Lake City Diœcesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | State of Utah |
Ecclesiastical province | Las Vegas |
Metropolitan | Las Vegas |
Statistics | |
Area | 84,990 sq mi (220,100 km2) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2020) 3,249,879 324,988[1] (10%) |
Parishes | 48 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | January 27, 1891 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Madeleine |
Patron saint | Mary Magdalene |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Oscar A. Solis |
Metropolitan Archbishop | George Leo Thomas |
Map | |
Website | |
dioslc.org |
The Diocese of Salt Lake City (Latin: Diœcesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church for the State of Utah in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese, formerly of the metropolitan Archdiocese of San Francisco and, since May 30, 2023, of the Archdiocese of Las Vegas.
The mother church of the Diocese of Salt Lake City is the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. On January 10, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Oscar Azarcon Solis as the tenth bishop of Salt Lake City.