List of Saint Louis Bishops
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The following is the List of Saint Louis Bishops. The Roman Catholic Church
in the United States
comprises 195 diocese
s led by residential bishop
s. Auxiliary bishop
s serve in association with the residential bishops in larger dioceses. There are thirty-two ecclesiastical province
s, each headed by a metropolitan archbishop
, of which the Archbishop
of Saint Louis is one. As of November 2010, five of the metropolitan archbishops of this see have been designated cardinal
s: [John Joseph Glennon]] (1946), Joseph Ritter (1961), John Carberry (1969) Justin Francis Rigali (2003), and Raymond Leo Burke
(2010).
In addition to the 195 dioceses, there are several other dioceses in the nation's overseas dependencies. There are also dioceses and eparchies
of the Eastern Catholic Churches. A special archdiocese was created by the Vatican
for the United States military. Such bodies are also organized into metropolitan provinces of their own.
All bishops in the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands, residential and auxiliary, are members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
. Bishops in Puerto Rico form their own episcopal conference
. Those from insular area
s in the Pacific Ocean
are members of the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific.
Roman Catholic Church
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in the United States
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comprises 195 diocese
Diocese
A diocese is the district or see under the supervision of a bishop. It is divided into parishes.An archdiocese is more significant than a diocese. An archdiocese is presided over by an archbishop whose see may have or had importance due to size or historical significance...
s led by residential bishop
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
s. Auxiliary bishop
Auxiliary bishop
An auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church, is an additional bishop assigned to a diocese because the diocesan bishop is unable to perform his functions, the diocese is so extensive that it requires more than one bishop to administer, or the diocese is attached to a royal or imperial office...
s serve in association with the residential bishops in larger dioceses. There are thirty-two ecclesiastical province
Ecclesiastical Province
An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a secular province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian churches, especially in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches and in the Anglican Communion...
s, each headed by a metropolitan archbishop
Metropolitan bishop
In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of a historical Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital.Before the establishment of...
, of which the Archbishop
Archbishop
An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...
of Saint Louis is one. As of November 2010, five of the metropolitan archbishops of this see have been designated cardinal
Cardinal (Catholicism)
A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
s: [John Joseph Glennon]] (1946), Joseph Ritter (1961), John Carberry (1969) Justin Francis Rigali (2003), and Raymond Leo Burke
Raymond Leo Burke
Raymond Leo Burke is an American Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. He is the current Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, having previously served as Archbishop of St...
(2010).
In addition to the 195 dioceses, there are several other dioceses in the nation's overseas dependencies. There are also dioceses and eparchies
Eparchy
Eparchy is an anglicized Greek word , authentically Latinized as eparchia and loosely translating as 'rule over something,' like province, prefecture, or territory, to have the jurisdiction over, it has specific meanings both in politics, history and in the hierarchy of the Eastern Christian...
of the Eastern Catholic Churches. A special archdiocese was created by the Vatican
Holy See
The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...
for the United States military. Such bodies are also organized into metropolitan provinces of their own.
All bishops in the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands, residential and auxiliary, are members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States. Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops and United States Catholic Conference, it is composed of all active and retired members of the Catholic...
. Bishops in Puerto Rico form their own episcopal conference
Episcopal Conference
In the Roman Catholic Church, an Episcopal Conference, Conference of Bishops, or National Conference of Bishops is an official assembly of all the bishops of a given territory...
. Those from insular area
Insular area
An insular area is a United States territory, that is neither a part of one of the fifty U.S. states nor the District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States...
s in the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
are members of the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific.
Archbishops
- Joseph RosatiJoseph RosatiJoseph Rosati was a U.S. Catholic bishop. He served as the first Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Louis between 1826 and 1843....
, C.M.LazaristsCongregation of the Mission is a vowed order of priests and brothers associated with the Vincentian Family, a loose federation of organizations who claim St. Vincent de Paul as their founder or Patron...
: March 20, 1827 – September 25, 1843 - Peter Richard KenrickPeter Richard KenrickPeter Richard Kenrick was the first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River.-Early life and ordination:He was born and educated in Dublin, Ireland and ordained to the priesthood in 1832...
: September 25, 1843 – May 21, 1895 - John Joseph KainJohn Joseph KainJohn Joseph Kain was a Roman Catholic priest who would eventually become Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis, and the first native-born American to hold that office.-Biography:...
: May 21, 1895 – October 13, 1903 - John Joseph Glennon: October 13, 1903 – March 9, 1946
- Joseph Ritter: July 20, 1946 – June 10, 1967
- John Carberry: March 25, 1968 – July 31, 1979
- John Lawrence MayJohn L. MayJohn Lawrence May was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mobile and Archbishop of St. Louis .-Early life and education:...
: January 24, 1980 – December 2, 1992 - Justin Francis Rigali: March 16, 1994 – July 15, 2003
- Raymond Leo BurkeRaymond Leo BurkeRaymond Leo Burke is an American Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church. He is the current Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, having previously served as Archbishop of St...
: January 26, 2004 – June 27, 2008 - Robert James CarlsonRobert James CarlsonRobert James Carlson is an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the ninth and current Archbishop of St. Louis. He previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of St...
: April 21, 2009 – Present
Auxiliary Bishops
- Christian Herman Winkelmann: September 13, 1933 – December 27, 1939
- George Joseph Donnelly: March 19, 1940 – November 9, 1946
- John Cody: May 10, 1947 – January 27, 1954
- Charles Herman HelmsingCharles Herman HelmsingThe Most Reverend Charles Herman Helmsing was an American Roman Catholic bishop.- History :...
: March 17, 1949 – August 24, 1956 - Leo Christopher ByrneLeo Christopher ByrneLeo Christopher Byrne was the Roman Catholic Coadjutor Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota....
: May 21, 1954 – February 11, 1961 - Glennon Patrick Flavin: April 17, 1957 – May 29, 1967
- George Joseph Gottwald: June 23, 1961 – August 2, 1988
- Joseph Alphonse McNicholas: January 31, 1969 – July 22, 1975
- Charles Roman Koester: January 2, 1971 – September 10, 1991
- Edward Thomas O'MearaEdward Thomas O'MearaEdward Thomas O'Meara was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Indianapolis from 1980 until his death.-Biography:...
: January 28, 1972 – November 21, 1979 - John Nicholas WurmJohn Nicholas WurmJohn Nicholas Wurm was the fifth Bishop of Belleville, Illinois.-Biography:John Wurm was born the seventh of fourteen children of Anthony and Rose Wurm on December 6, 1927 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was baptized on December 18, 1927, at All Souls Church in Overland, Missouri...
: June 25, 1976 – September 19, 1981 - Edward Joseph O'DonnellEdward Joseph O'DonnellEdward Joseph O'Donnell was the fifth Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana....
: December 6, 1983 – November 8, 1994 - James Terry SteibJ. Terry SteibJames Terry Steib, S.V.D. is an African American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fourth and current Bishop of Memphis.-Biography:...
, S.V.D.Divine Word MissionariesThe Society of the Divine Word , popularly called the Divine Word Missionaries, and sometimes the Steyler Missionaries, is a missionary religious congregation in the Latin Church, one of the 23 sui iuris churches which make up the Catholic Church. As of 2006 it consisted of 6,102 members composed...
: December 6, 1983 – May 5, 1993 - Paul Albert Zipfel: May 16, 1989 – December 31, 1996
- Edward Kenneth BraxtonEdward BraxtonEdward Kenneth Braxton was a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago when he was appointed bishop by Pope John Paul II on March 28, 1995. He was consecrated auxiliary bishop of Saint Louis by Justin Francis Rigali on May 17, 1995, in the city's Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis. Braxton was...
: May 17, 1995 – February 21, 2001 - Michael John SheridanMichael John SheridanMichael John Sheridan is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the second and current Bishop of Colorado Springs.- Biography :...
: July 8, 1997 – December 4, 2001 - Joseph Fred NaumannJoseph Fred NaumannJoseph Fred Naumann is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He serves as the fourth and current Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas.-Biography:...
: July 8, 1997 – January 7, 2004 - Timothy Michael DolanTimothy DolanTimothy Michael Dolan is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He is the tenth and current Archbishop of New York, having previously served as Archbishop of Milwaukee and Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis ....
: June 19, 2001 – June 25, 2002 - Robert Joseph HermannRobert Joseph HermannRobert J. Hermann, born August 12, 1934, is an American Roman Catholic Bishop: Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, Titular bishop of Zerta. Hermann was appointed by Pope John Paul II on October 16, 2002, as the Auxiliary Bishop to serve the Archdiocese of Saint Louis...
: October 16, 2002 – December 1, 2010 - Edward Matthew RiceEdward M. RiceEdward Matthew Rice, born July 28, 1960, in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American Roman Catholic Bishop: Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and Titular Bishop of Sufes. On Wednesday, December 1, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI designated the Reverend Monsignor Edward M. Rice to become...
: December 1, 2010 - Present
See also
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis
- List of the Catholic bishops of the United States
- List of the Catholic cathedrals of the United States
- List of the Roman Catholic dioceses of the United States