Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre information
Latin Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdiction in New York, USA
Diocese of Rockville Centre
Dioecesis Petropolitana in Insula Longa
St. Agnes Cathedral
Coat of arms
Location
Country
United States
Territory
Long Island, New York
Ecclesiastical province
New York
Statistics
Population - Total - Catholics
(as of 2014) 2,851,977 1,531,445[1] (53.7%)
Parishes
134
Information
Denomination
Catholic
Sui iuris church
Latin Church
Rite
Roman Rite
Established
April 6, 1957
Cathedral
St. Agnes Cathedral
Patron saint
Saint Agnes[2]
Current leadership
Pope
Francis
Bishop
John Barres
Metropolitan Archbishop
Timothy M. Dolan
Auxiliary Bishops
Andrzej Jerzy Zglejszewski
Robert J. Coyle
Luis Miguel Romero Fernández
Bishops emeritus
William Murphy
John Charles Dunne
Map
Website
drvc.org
The Diocese of Rockville Centre (Latin: Dioecesis Petropolitana in Insula Longa) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the Long Island region of New York State in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of New York.
The current bishop is John Barres. The cathedral is St. Agnes Cathedral, in Rockville Centre, New York. Founded in 1957, this diocese was created from territory that formerly belonged to the Diocese of Brooklyn. It includes all of Nassau and Suffolk counties except for Fishers Island, which is part of the Diocese of Norwich. As of 2005[update], it the sixth-largest Catholic diocese in the United States, currently serving approximately 1.5 million people in 134 parishes.[3]
^Who We Are Archived 2017-03-18 at the Wayback Machine. Diocese of Rockville Centre. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
^"The Diocese of Rockville Centre Celebrates Patron, St. Agnes | the Diocese of Rockville Centre".
^"1010 WINS - On-Air, Online, on Demand - LI Diocese Loses Sex Abuse Suit". Archived from the original on 2007-08-05. Retrieved 2005-12-14.
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