Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, is a Latin diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City and it is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
On January 10, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Most Rev. Oscar Azarcon Solis, then an Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles, the 10th Bishop of Salt Lake City.

Statistics and extent

As per 2014, it pastorally served 291,000 Catholics on 219,887 km² in 48 parishes with 69 priests, 75 deacons, 43 lay religious and 7 seminarians.
It comprises the entire state of Utah.

History

In 1871 Fr. Patrick Walsh built the first Catholic Church in Utah, dedicating it to St. Mary Magdalene. Father Lawrence Scanlan arrived in 1873 to become pastor. He took care of the Catholic military men, immigrant miners and railroad workers who numbered in the hundreds. Small churches, schools, an orphanage and a hospital were built, staffed by clergy and by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, to serve the growing Catholic population.
As the nineteenth century came to a close, the Catholic community in Salt Lake City was rapidly outgrowing the small church of St. Mary Magdalene.
In 1887 the Church in Utah became the Apostolic Vicariate of Utah, on territory split off from its metropolitan diocese, the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Ground was broken for the new church in 1899. Construction for the Cathedral of the Madeleine would last nearly a decade, costing a small fortune for the estimated 3,000 Catholics in Utah at the turn of the century. Assistance was obtained from Catholic Mission Societies.
On January 27, 1891 it was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake and on March 27, 1931 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Reno. Finally, on March 31, 1951 it was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake City.

Bishops

The following includes the lists of bishops, coadjutor bishops, and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their dates of service.

Apostolic Vicar of Salt Lake

  1. Lawrence Scanlan

    Bishops of Salt Lake

  2. Lawrence Scanlan
  3. Joseph Sarsfield Glass, C.M.
  4. John Joseph Mitty, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop and later Archbishop of San Francisco
  5. James Edward Kearney, appointed Bishop of Rochester
  6. Duane Garrison Hunt

    Bishops of Salt Lake City

  7. Duane Garrison Hunt
  8. Joseph Lennox Federal
  9. William Kenneth Weigand, appointed Bishop of Sacramento
  10. George Hugh Niederauer, appointed Archbishop of San Francisco
  11. John Charles Wester, appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe
  12. Oscar Azarcon Solis

    Coadjutor Bishop

  13. Joseph Lennox Federal

    Auxiliary Bishops

  14. Leo John Steck
  15. Joseph Lennox Federal, appointed Coadjutor Bishop and later Bishop here

    Other priest of this diocese who became Bishop

The Diocese of Salt Lake City has many Catholic elementary-middle schools with its borders:
As well, the diocese has three Catholic high schools within its borders: