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T.A.Stobie:
Tom is correct. There’ s no comparative rankings between archdioceses and dioceses.
New Orleans has slightly less than a half-million Catholics per the last edition of Annuario Pontificio (the Vatican’s annual statistical report), while Galveston-Houston has almost a million. However, Catholics in New Orleans represent a third of the population; Galveston-Houston’s Catholics are only 20% of its population.
It’s pretty uncommon to have more than a single archdiocese in a state; as a matter of fact, only California has 2. Texas presently has only 1 - San Antonio. There are only 34 archepiscopal jurisdictions in the US and only 31 of those are territorial (geographically-based):
But, don’t get an inferiority complex about Galveston-Houston.
The first canonical jurisdiction erected in Texas was in 1839, when what is now the Diocese of Galveston-Houston was designated the Prefecture Apostolic of Texas; becoming Vicariate Apostolic of Texas in 1841. From 1847, when it was elevated to become the state’s first diocese (under title “Diocese of Galveston” ), until 1874, it was the sole ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Texas - encompassing the entire state.
As such, the Diocese of Galveston-Houston is the parent or grandparent diocese to every canonical jurisdiction now existing in Texas (including its Metropolitan Archdiocese, San Antonio) as well as several others in the Southwest.
(BTW, until 1926, when San Antonio was elevated to become a metropolitan archdiocese, Galveston was suffragn to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of New Orleans.)
Many years,
Neil
St Jeanne,
Tom is correct. There’ s no comparative rankings between archdioceses and dioceses.
New Orleans has slightly less than a half-million Catholics per the last edition of Annuario Pontificio (the Vatican’s annual statistical report), while Galveston-Houston has almost a million. However, Catholics in New Orleans represent a third of the population; Galveston-Houston’s Catholics are only 20% of its population.
It’s pretty uncommon to have more than a single archdiocese in a state; as a matter of fact, only California has 2. Texas presently has only 1 - San Antonio. There are only 34 archepiscopal jurisdictions in the US and only 31 of those are territorial (geographically-based):
- 28 states in which a single archdiocese is situated
- 2 archdioceses situated in the State of California
- 1 archdiocese in the District of Columbia (Washington, DC)
- 1 military ordinariate
- 2 archeparchies (of the Byzantine Ruthenian and Ukrainian Churches sui iuris), both situated in Pennsylvania (an archeparchy is the Eastern Catholic jurisdictional equivalent of a Latin archdiocese)
But, don’t get an inferiority complex about Galveston-Houston.
The first canonical jurisdiction erected in Texas was in 1839, when what is now the Diocese of Galveston-Houston was designated the Prefecture Apostolic of Texas; becoming Vicariate Apostolic of Texas in 1841. From 1847, when it was elevated to become the state’s first diocese (under title “Diocese of Galveston” ), until 1874, it was the sole ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Texas - encompassing the entire state.As such, the Diocese of Galveston-Houston is the parent or grandparent diocese to every canonical jurisdiction now existing in Texas (including its Metropolitan Archdiocese, San Antonio) as well as several others in the Southwest.
(BTW, until 1926, when San Antonio was elevated to become a metropolitan archdiocese, Galveston was suffragn to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of New Orleans.)
Many years,
Neil