Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, in Texas, USA.
The diocese's first cathedral church is Immaculate Conception Cathedral, located in Downtown Brownsville, Texas with a co-cathedral, Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle located in San Juan, Texas.

History

As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,090,000 Catholics on 111,125 km² in 71 parishes, 3 missions, 118 priests, 92 deacons, 140 lay religious, 18 seminarians.
The Diocese has the highest percentage of Catholics to total diocese population in the United States: as of 2006 there were 943,611 Catholics among a total population of 1,110,130, or 85.0%.

Bishops

Bishops of Brownsville

  1. Adolph Marx
  2. Humberto Sousa Medeiros, appointed Archbishop of Boston
  3. John Joseph Fitzpatrick
  4. Enrique San Pedro, S.J.
  5. Raymundo Joseph Peña
  6. Daniel E. Flores

    Coadjutor Bishop

Middle and elementary schools

The diocese operates the following schools:
Guadalupe Regional Middle School, 6-8 ;
St. Joseph's School, PK-8 ;
St. Mary's School, PK-6 ;
St. Luke's School, PK-8 ;
Our Lady of Sorrows School, PK-8 ;
St. Anthony's School, PK-8 ;
Incarnate Word School, PK-8 ;
St. Martin de Porras School, PK-3 ;
Oratory Academy, PK-8 ;
Our Lady of Guadalupe School, PK-6 ;
Immaculate Conception School, PK-8.

High schools

The diocese's radio and television stations are operated under the license name of RGV Educational Broadcasting, Inc.