Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Amarillo (Latin: Dioecesis Amarillensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Amarillo, Texas. It was founded on August 3, 1926 out of territory taken from the Diocese of Dallas[2] and the Diocese of San Antonio on the same day that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio, its metropolitan see, was elevated to metropolitan status, replacing New Orleans.[3] The Diocese consists of the following 26 counties in the Texas panhandle: Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Huchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochitree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, and Wheeler.

Diocese of Amarillo

Dioecesis Amarillensis
Location
Country United States
TerritoryPanhandle of Texas
Ecclesiastical provinceProvince of San Antonio
Statistics
Area25,800 sq mi (67,000 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics (including non-members)		(as of 2012)
427,927
50,237 (11.7%)
Parishes38
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
EstablishedAugust 3, 1926
CathedralSt. Mary's Cathedral
Patron saintSaint Lawrence[1]
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopPatrick Zurek
Bishop of Amarillo
Metropolitan ArchbishopGustavo Garcia-Siller
Archbishop of San Antonio
Bishops emeritusJohn Walter Yanta
Map
Website
amarillodiocese.org

Bishops

Bishops of Amarillo

The list of bishops and their terms of service:

  1. Rudolph Gerken (1926–1933), appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe
  2. Robert Emmet Lucey (1934–1941), appointed Archbishop of San Antonio
  3. Laurence Julius FitzSimon (1941–1958)
  4. John Louis Morkovsky (1958–1963), appointed Bishop of Galveston-Houston
  5. Lawrence Michael De Falco (1963–1979)
  6. Leroy Theodore Matthiesen (1980–1997)
  7. John Walter Yanta (1997–2008)
  8. Patrick Zurek (2008–present)

Other priest of the diocese who became a bishop

Education
High Schools

Former Cathedrals

See also

References
  1. https://amarillodiocese.org/about
  2. "History of the Diocese of Dallas" (PDF). Diocess of Dallas. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  3. "Diocese of Amarillo". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 2016-11-07.


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