Roman Catholic Diocese of Dodge City

Coordinates: 37°45′35″N 100°01′06″W / 37.75972°N 100.01833°W / 37.75972; -100.01833
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Diocese of Dodge City

Dioecesis Dodgepolis
Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Patron saintOur Lady of Guadalupe
John the Baptist
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopJohn Balthasar Brungardt
Bishop of Dodge City
Metropolitan ArchbishopJoseph Fred Naumann
Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas
Bishops emeritusRonald Michael Gilmore
Stanley Girard Schlarman
Map
Website
dcdiocese.org

The Diocese of Dodge City (

Latin: Dioecesis Dodgepolis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in southwestern Kansas in the United States. Pope Pius XII
created the diocese on May 19, 1951.

The Diocese of Dodge City is a

Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.[1]

John B. Brungardt was appointed Bishop of Dodge City in December 2010.

Territory

The Catholic Diocese of Dodge City comprises the following Kansas counties: Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Kiowa, Lane, Meade, Morton, Ness, Pawnee, Pratt, Rush, Scott, Seward, Stafford, Stanton, Stevens, and Wichita.[2]

History

1850 to 1950

In 1850,

Apostolic Vicariate of Kansas, covering the newly created Kansas Territory.[4]
The first resident pastor within the Wichita area was appointed in 1873.

The

Diocese of Concordia and the southern counties the Diocese of Wichita.[5]
The Dodge City area remained part of the Diocese of Wichita for the next 64 years

1950 to present

In 1951,

Diocese of Peoria in 1959.[7]

In 1960, Monsignor

Archdiocese of St. Louis was appointed as the second bishop of Dodge City by John XXIII.[8]
During his tenure, he established the following new offices and ministries:

Pope Paul VI named Forst as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City in 1976.

To replace Forst, Monsignor

pastoral council, and an office of aging and parenting; and promoted the pastoral ministry training program and Cursillo movement.[12]
Schlarman retired in 1998.

Monsignor

Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, was consecrated in 2001. Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patroness of the diocese.[14]
Gilmore retired in 2010.

As of 2023, the bishop of the Diocese of Dodge City is John Brungardt from Wichita. He was named by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.

Sex abuse

In February 2019, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) announced that it had been investigating sex abuse allegations against all the Catholic dioceses in Kansas since November 2018. On August 14, 2020, KBI spokeswoman Melissa Underwood stated, "As of Aug. 7, we have had 205 reports of abuse and have opened 120 cases."[15]

In October 2019, the diocese released a list of ten priests and two seminarians with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors.[16]

In February 2021, the KBI notified Bishop Brungardt that he was under investigation for

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome in March 2022. There were no criminal charges.[19]

Statistics

The Diocese of Dodge City encompasses 23,000 square miles and 50 parishes in 28 counties.[6]

Bishops

Bishops of Dodge City

See also

  • Catholic Church hierarchy
  • List of the Catholic dioceses of the United States
  • Sacred Heart Cathedral, Dodge City
    , former Cathedral

References

  1. ^ "Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas". GCatholic. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  2. ^ "History". Catholic Diocese of Dodge City. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  3. ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Leavenworth". www.newadvent.org.
  4. ^ a b "Kansas City in Kansas (Archdiocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  5. ^ "Wichita (Diocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  6. ^ a b "History". Catholic Diocese of Dodge City. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  7. ^ a b "Bishop John Baptist Franz". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
  8. ^ "Bishop Marion Francis Forst". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.[self-published source]
  9. ^ "Bishop Forst, oldest U.S. bishop, dies June 2". The Catholic Key. Archived from the original on 2007-06-14.
  10. ^ "'Some day this boy will become a priest'". The Catholic Advance. 2001-12-14.
  11. ^ "Bishop Stanley Girard Schlarman". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
  12. ^ "Bishop Stanley G. Schlarman". Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Illinois.
  13. ^ "Bishop Ronald Michael Gilmore [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  14. ^ "Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe". Archived from the original on 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  15. ^ "Newly released KBI report identifies 400+ victims of child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Kansas". KSHB 41 Kansas City News. 2023-01-07. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  16. ^ "Dodge City Diocese releases list of accused priests". KSN-TV. 2019-10-02. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  17. ^ CNA. "Dodge City bishop under investigation for alleged abuse of a minor". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  18. ^ "Kansas bishop steps aside from duties as abuse allegation is investigated". National Catholic Reporter. 2021-02-09. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  19. ^ "Bishop Brungardt to resume duties after abuse investigation". www.gbtribune.com. Retrieved 2023-02-03.

External links

Sacred Heart Cathedral, former seat of the Diocese of Dodge City

37°45′35″N 100°01′06″W / 37.75972°N 100.01833°W / 37.75972; -100.01833

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