Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the region of New England in the United States, comprising the entire state of New Hampshire.
It is a suffragan in the Latin Rite ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Boston, and its bishop is a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and its Region I.
Its leading prelate also serves as pastor of the mother church, the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Manchester.

History

erected the Diocese of Manchester by canon on April 15, 1884. Its territories were taken from the Diocese of Portland in the neighboring state of Maine.

Sex abuse

On July 31, 2019, the Dicoese of New Hampshire released a list of 73 priests and religious order members who were "credibly accused" of committing acts of sex abuse. Some of those listed were criminally convicted, defrocked, removed from public ministry, or died without receiving punishment.

Statistics

As per 2018, the diocese pastorally served 322,258 Catholics on 24,097 km² in 89 parishes with 185 priests, 73 deacons, 314 lay religious and 14 seminarians.

Bishops

Bishops of Manchester

  1. Denis Mary Bradley
  2. John Bernard Delany
  3. George Albert Guertin
  4. John Bertram Peterson
  5. Matthew Francis Brady
  6. Ernest John Primeau
  7. Odore Joseph Gendron
  8. Leo Edward O'Neil
  9. John Brendan McCormack
  10. Peter Anthony Libasci

    Coadjutor Bishop

Superintendents