Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City

As per 2014, it pastorally served 291,000 Catholics (10.0% of 2,900,872 total) on 219,887 km² in 48 parishes with 69 priests (62 diocesan, 7 religious), 75 deacons, 43 lay religious (14 brothers, 29 sisters) and 7 seminarians.[2]

It comprises the entire state of Utah.

In 1871 Fr. Patrick Walsh built the first Catholic Church in Utah, dedicating it to St. Mary Magdalene. Father (later Bishop) Lawrence Scanlan arrived in 1873 to become pastor. He took care of the Catholic military men, immigrant miners and railroad workers who numbered in the hundreds. Small churches, schools, an orphanage and a hospital were built, staffed by clergy and by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, to serve the growing Catholic population. As the nineteenth century came to a close, the Catholic community in Salt Lake City was rapidly outgrowing the small church of St. Mary Magdalene.

In 1887 the Church in Utah became the Apostolic Vicariate of Utah, on territory split off from its metropolitan diocese, the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Ground was broken for the new church in 1899. Construction for the Cathedral of the Madeleine would last nearly a decade, costing a small fortune for the estimated 3,000 Catholics in Utah at the turn of the century. Assistance was obtained from Catholic Mission Societies.[3]

On January 27, 1891 it was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake and on March 27, 1931 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Reno. Finally, on March 31, 1951 it was renamed the Diocese of Salt Lake City.[2]

The following includes the lists of bishops, coadjutor bishops, and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their dates of service.[2]

The Diocese of Salt Lake City has many Catholic elementary-middle schools with its borders:

• Blessed Sacrament Catholic School, Sandy
• J.E Cosgriff Memorial Catholic School, Salt Lake City
• Kearns-Saint Ann Catholic School, South Salt Lake
• Madeleine Choir Catholic School, Salt Lake City
• Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, Salt Lake City
• Saint Andrew Catholic School, Riverton
• Saint Francis Xavier Catholic School, Kearns
• Saint John the Baptist Catholic Elementary School, Draper
• Saint John the Baptist Catholic Middle School, Draper
• Saint Joseph Catholic Elementary School, Ogden
• Saint Marguerite Catholic School, Tooele
• Saint Olaf Catholic School, Bountiful
• Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic School, Salt Lake City

As well, the diocese has three Catholic high schools within its borders:

• Juan Diego Catholic High School, Draper
• Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City
• St. Joseph Catholic High School, Ogden

• Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City Utah

• Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity - Trappist Cistercian monks (closed in 2017)
• Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - Carmelite Nuns
• Saint Benedict Monastery & Hospital in South Ogden Utah - Sisters of St. Benedict (monastery closed and hospital sold)

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• Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City Official Site
• GCatholic, with Google map & photo - data for most sections
• Intermountain Catholic - newspaper of the Diocese of Salt Lake City
• Map of the Diocese of Salt Lake City
• Outreach programs of the Salt Lake City area ( Catholic Community Services of Utah )
• Archdiocese of San Francisco - official site
• Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Salt Lake" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.