Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese
of the Roman Catholic Church
in the Central Valley and Mother Lode region of California
in the United States
. It comprises the Counties of Alpine
, Calaveras
, Mono
, San Joaquin
, Stanislaus
and Tuolumne
. Also known as the See of Stockton, it is led by a bishop
which pastors the following churches, the Cathedral of the Annunciation, Church of the Presentation in Stockton, California
.
Originally a part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
and the Diocese of Sacramento
, the present-day diocese was established in 1962. It has one of the largest Asian
and Pacific Islander
populations (with Asians being mostly Filipino American
s) of the American Catholic dioceses.
Today, the See of Stockton remains a suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of San Francisco
. Its fellow suffragans include the Dioceses of Honolulu
, Las Vegas
, Oakland
, Reno
, Sacramento
, Salt Lake City
, San Jose
, Santa Rosa
.
In 1998 a jury awarded two brothers $30 million in a judgement against the Diocese of Stockton over its handling of a priest who abused the men while they were boys, allegedly starting when they were three.
At the trial it was revealed that in a 1976 letter to his superiors O'Grady, the abusive priest, had admitted to sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl. In 1984 an attorney for the diocese promised to get O'Grady away from children, a promise recorded in a police report. O'Grady abused the boys who latter brought the suit from 1978-1991. In 1993 he pled guilty to abusing them and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
During the O'Grady trial Mahony claimed that O'Grady was the only accused priest he dealt with in Stockton. Later in 2004 Mahony admitted under oath that parents had confronted him with accusations against another priest in the diocese, Antonio Munoz.
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...
of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
in the Central Valley and Mother Lode region of California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It comprises the Counties of Alpine
Alpine County, California
Alpine County is the smallest county, by population, in the U.S. state of California. As of 2010, it had a population of 1,175, all rural. There are no incorporated cities in the county. The county seat is Markleeville...
, Calaveras
Calaveras County, California
Calaveras County is a county located in the Gold Country of the U.S. state of California. Calaveras is the Spanish word for skulls; the county was reportedly named for the remains of Native Americans discovered by the Spanish explorer Captain Gabriel Moraga. As of the 2010 census, the county had a...
, Mono
Mono County, California
Mono County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of California, to the east of the Sierra Nevada between Yosemite National Park and Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,202, up from 12,853 at the 2000 census...
, San Joaquin
San Joaquin County, California
San Joaquin County is a county located in Central Valley of the U.S. state of California, just east of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 685,306. The county seat is Stockton.-History:...
, Stanislaus
Stanislaus County, California
Stanislaus County is a county located in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. As the price of housing has increased in the San Francisco Bay Area, many people who work in the southern reaches of the Bay Area have opted for the longer commute and moved to Stanislaus County for the...
and Tuolumne
Tuolumne County, California
Tuolumne County is a county in the Sierra Nevada of the U.S. state of California. The northern half of Yosemite National Park is located in the eastern part of the county. As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,365, up from 54,501 at the 2000 census...
. Also known as the See of Stockton, it is led by a 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...
which pastors the following churches, the Cathedral of the Annunciation, Church of the Presentation in Stockton, California
Stockton, California
Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...
.
Originally a part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. It covers the City and County of San Francisco and the Counties of Marin and San Mateo...
and the Diocese of Sacramento
Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento is an ecclesiastical territory or particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States...
, the present-day diocese was established in 1962. It has one of the largest Asian
Asian people
Asian people or Asiatic people is a term with multiple meanings that refers to people who descend from a portion of Asia's population.- Central Asia :...
and Pacific Islander
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islander , is a geographic term to describe the indigenous inhabitants of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia.According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, these three regions, together with their islands consist of:Polynesia:...
populations (with Asians being mostly Filipino American
Filipino American
Filipino Americans are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipino Americans, often shortened to "Fil-Ams", or "Pinoy",Filipinos in what is now the United States were first documented in the 16th century, with small settlements beginning in the 18th century...
s) of the American Catholic dioceses.
Today, the See of Stockton remains a suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of the Archbishop of San Francisco
Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco is the Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties in California, the United States...
. Its fellow suffragans include the Dioceses of Honolulu
Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu
The Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, officially in Latin Dioecesis Honoluluensis, is an ecclesiastical territory or particular church of the Catholic Church in the United States...
, Las Vegas
Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern Nevada region of the United States. It comprises the Counties of Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Nye, White Pine and is governed from the City of Las Vegas...
, Oakland
Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Northern California. The diocese comprises Alameda and Contra Costa Counties in the San Francisco Bay Area...
, Reno
Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno is an ecclesiastical territory of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern Nevada region of the United States, centered on the city of Reno. With the urging of Cardinal George Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, Pope Pius XI established the Diocese on March 27, 1931...
, Sacramento
Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento is an ecclesiastical territory or particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States...
, Salt Lake City
Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, officially in Latin Dioecesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi, is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. It comprises the entire state of Utah. Also known as the Utah Catholic Church or the See of Salt Lake City, its mother church is the...
, San Jose
Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San José; in California is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. It comprises Santa Clara County, and is led by a bishop. Its patron saints are Saint Joseph and Saint Clare of...
, Santa Rosa
Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in California is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States, named in honor of St. Rose of Lima. It comprises the Counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa and...
.
History
- Hugh Aloysius DonohoeHugh Aloysius DonohoeHugh Aloysius Donohoe was an American Roman Catholic clergyman.Born in San Francisco, California, Donohoe was educated at St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park and at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 14, 1930. He then served as a...
(1962–1969) - Merlin Guilfoyle (1969–1979)
- Roger Mahony (1980–1985)
- Donald MontroseDonald MontroseDonald William Montrose was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton in northern California from 1986 to 1999.Montrose was born in Denver, Colorado. When he was eleven his family moved to southern California....
(1985–1999) - Stephen BlaireStephen BlaireStephen Edward Blaire is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fifth and current Bishop of Stockton.-Biography:...
(1999 - )
In 1998 a jury awarded two brothers $30 million in a judgement against the Diocese of Stockton over its handling of a priest who abused the men while they were boys, allegedly starting when they were three.
At the trial it was revealed that in a 1976 letter to his superiors O'Grady, the abusive priest, had admitted to sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl. In 1984 an attorney for the diocese promised to get O'Grady away from children, a promise recorded in a police report. O'Grady abused the boys who latter brought the suit from 1978-1991. In 1993 he pled guilty to abusing them and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
During the O'Grady trial Mahony claimed that O'Grady was the only accused priest he dealt with in Stockton. Later in 2004 Mahony admitted under oath that parents had confronted him with accusations against another priest in the diocese, Antonio Munoz.
Parishes
- Cathedral of the Annunciation (Stockton)
- Church of the Presentation (Stockton)
- All Saints (Twain Harte)
- All Saints Newman Community (CSUS and MJC, Turlock)
- Holy Cross (Linden)
- Holy Family Parish (Modesto)
- Our Lady of Fatima (Modesto)
- Our Lady Of Guadalupe (Lathrop)
- Our Lady of the Assumption of the Portuguese (Turlock)
- Sacred Heart (Patterson)
- Sacred Heart (Turlock)
- St. Andrew (San Andreas)
- St. Anne (Lodi)
- St. Anthony of Padua (Manteca)
- St. Anthony (Hughson)
- St. Bernadette (Stockton)
- St. Bernard (Tracy)
- St. Edward (Stockton)
- St. Frances of Rome (Riverbank)
- St. George (Stockton)
- St. Gertrude (Stockton)
- St. Joachim (Lockeford)
- St. Joachim (Newman)
- St. Joseph (Modesto)
- St. Joseph (Mammoth Lakes)
- St. Jude (Ceres)
- St. Linus (Stockton)
- St. Luke (Stockton)
- St. Mary of the Annunciation (Oakdale)
- St. Mary of the Assumption (Stockton)
- St. Michael (Stockton)
- St. Patrick (Angels Camp)
- St. Patrick (Ripon)
- St. Patrick (Sonora)
- St. Stanislaus (Modesto)
High schools
- St. Mary's High SchoolSt. Mary's High School (Stockton, California)Saint Mary's High School, founded in 1876, is a Roman Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory in Stockton, California, USA. The school has long established itself as the premier private secondary school in the San Joaquin County. St...
, Stockton - Central Catholic High SchoolCentral Catholic High School (Modesto, California)Central Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Modesto, California. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockton.-Background:...
, Modesto
Elementary/Junior High schools
- Annunciation School, Stockton
- Presentation Catholic School, Stockton
- Our Lady of Fatima School, Modesto
- Sacred Heart School, Patterson
- Sacred Heart School, Turlock
- St. Anne School, Lodi
- St. Anthony School, Manteca
- St. Bernard School, Tracy
- St. George School, Stockton
- St. Luke School, Stockton
- St. Stanislaus School, Modesto
Active Ministries, Movements, and Orders
- Communion and LiberationCommunion and LiberationCommunion and Liberation, or CL, is a lay ecclesial movement within the Catholic Church.-Overview:CL grew out of the educational and catechetical methods of Msgr. Luigi Giussani, who founded the movement...
(meetings held at St. Luke's Catholic Church) - Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, CaliforniaDominican Sisters of San Rafael, CaliforniaThe Dominican Sisters of San Rafael is a Roman Catholic congregation of Dominican sisters located in San Rafael, California, USA. The congregation is a religious women's order affiliated with the Order of Preachers. They are a co-sponsor of Catholic Healthcare West.-History:The Dominican Sisters...
(St. Joseph's Medical Center, Stockton) - Legion of MaryLegion of MaryThe Legion of Mary is an association of Catholic laity who serve the Church on a voluntary basis. It was founded in Dublin, Ireland, as a Roman Catholic Marian Movement by layman Frank Duff. Today between active and auxiliary members there are in excess of 10 million members worldwide making it...
(active at numerous parishes) - Newman Center (University of the Pacific / San Joaquin Delta College, Stanislaus State University)
- Oblates of St. Francis de SalesOblates of St. Francis de SalesThe Oblates of St. Francis de Sales are a congregation of Roman Catholic priests and brothers who base their spirituality on the teachings of St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal. The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (Latin: Oblati Sancti Francisci Salesii, O.S.F.S.) are a congregation of...
(St. Mary's High School, Stockton) - Religious of the Cross of the Sacred Heart of Jesus