Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo is a Roman Catholic diocese in Amarillo, Texas. It was founded on August 3, 1926 out of territory taken from the Diocese of Dallas and the Diocese of San Antonio on the same day that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio, its metropolitan see, was elevated to metropolitan status, replacing New Orleans.

Bishops

Bishops of Amarillo

The list of bishops and their terms of service:
  1. Rudolph Gerken, appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe
  2. Robert Emmet Lucey, appointed Archbishop of San Antonio
  3. Laurence Julius FitzSimon
  4. John Louis Morkovsky, appointed Bishop of Galveston-Houston
  5. Lawrence Michael De Falco
  6. Leroy Theodore Matthiesen
  7. John Walter Yanta
  8. Patrick Zurek

    Other priest of the diocese who became a bishop