Diocese of Tucson
Tucsonen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tucson, Arizona, United States
The Diocese of Tucson is a Latin Church diocese covering nine counties of southern Arizona, erected in 1897 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. James Misko was installed as its eighth bishop on February 20, 2026.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 May 1897
- Latin
- Tucsonen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Annuario code
- 001000008
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 382,123
- Population
- 1,689,676
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 22.6%
- Priests
- 179
- Catholics per priest
- 2,135
- Extent
- 110,611 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.5
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 Misko
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
St. Augustine Cathedral stands in Tucson, 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 GallupGallup
- Diocese of Las CrucesLas Cruces
- Diocese of PhoenixPhoenix
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Southern Arizona in the United States forms the territory of the Diocese of Tucson (Latin: Dioecesis Tucsonensis, Spanish: Diócesis de Tucson), a Roman Catholic diocese whose mother church is St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson. It stands as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
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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.