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Diocese of Wichita

Vichiten(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Wichita, Kansas, United States

The Diocese of Wichita is a Latin Church diocese covering 25 counties of south-central and southeastern Kansas, erected in 1887 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. Carl A. Kemme has served as bishop since 2014.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
2 August 1887
Latin
Vichiten(sis)
Patron
Immaculate Conception
Annuario code
001000153

The see in figures

Catholics
120,527
Population
979,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
12.3%
Priests
126
Catholics per priest
957
Extent
51,854 km²
Catholics per km²
2.3

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
Carl A. Kemme
Born
14 August 1960
Birthplace
Effingham

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

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception stands in Wichita, 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 Kansas City in Kansas

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

In Kansas in the United States, the Catholic Church maintains the Diocese of Wichita (Latin: Dioecesis Wichitensis), a suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.

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Sources

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.