Diocese of Gallup
Gallupien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Gallup, New Mexico, United States
The Diocese of Gallup is a Latin Church diocese covering northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona, erected in 1939. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and is led by Bishop James S. Wall.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 December 1939
- Latin
- Gallupien(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Annuario code
- 001001459
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 60,000
- Population
- 470,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 12.8%
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 1,364
- Extent
- 143,662 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.4
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- James S. Wall
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Sacred Heart Cathedral stands in Gallup, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Santa Fe
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Santa FeSanta Fe
- Diocese of Las CrucesLas Cruces
- Diocese of PhoenixPhoenix
- Diocese of TucsonTucson
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona in the United States form the territory of the Diocese of Gallup (Latin: Dioecesis Gallupiensis, Spanish: Diócesis de Gallup), a diocese of the Catholic Church and a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Its mother church is the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Gallup, and its bishop is James Sean Wall.
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The see's own website · Wikipedia
Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.