Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville (Latin: Dioecesis Brownsvillensis, Spanish: Diócesis de Brownsville) is a Latin Rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, in Texas, USA.

Diocese of Brownsville

Dioecesis Brownsvillensis

Diócesis de Brownsville
Immaculate Conception Cathedral
Location
Country United States
TerritoryCounties of Starr, Willacy, Hidalgo, and Cameron counties in Southern Texas
Ecclesiastical provinceGalveston-Houston
Statistics
Area4,226 sq mi (10,950 km2)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2012)
1,264,091
1,074,477 (85.0%)
Parishes69
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
EstablishedJuly 10, 1965
CathedralImmaculate Conception Cathedral
Co-cathedralBasilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopDaniel E. Flores
Metropolitan ArchbishopDaniel DiNardo
Auxiliary BishopsMario Alberto Avilés
Bishops emeritusRaymundo Joseph Peña
Map
Website
cdob.org

The diocese's first cathedral church is Immaculate Conception Cathedral, located in Downtown Brownsville, Texas with a co-cathedral, Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle located in San Juan, Texas.

History
  • Founded on 1874.08.28 as Apostolic Vicariate of Brownsville / Brownsvillen(sis) (Latin), of territory split off from the then Diocese of Galveston.
  • Designated the Diocese of Corpus Christi on 1912.03.23.
  • Restored (and promoted) on 10 July 1965 as Diocese of Brownsville / Brovnsvillen(sis) (Latin), taking its territory from the above Diocese of Corpus Christi.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 1,090,000 Catholics (85.0% of 1,283,000 total) on 111,125 km² in 71 parishes, 3 missions, 118 priests (85 diocesan, 33 religious), 92 deacons, 140 lay religious (52 brothers, 88 sisters), 18 seminarians.

The Diocese has the highest percentage of Catholics to total diocese population in the United States: as of 2006 there were 943,611 Catholics among a total population of 1,110,130, or 85.0%.[1]

Bishops

Bishops of Brownsville
  1. Adolph Marx (1965)[2]
  2. Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1966-1970), appointed Archbishop of Boston (Cardinal in 1973)
  3. John Joseph Fitzpatrick (1971-1991)
  4. Enrique San Pedro, S.J. (1991-1994)
  5. Raymundo Joseph Peña (1994-2009)
  6. Daniel E. Flores (2009–present)

Coadjutor Bishop

Auxiliary Bishop

Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

Education
Universities
High schools
Middle and elementary schools

The diocese operates the following schools: Guadalupe Regional Middle School, 6-8 (Brownsville); St. Joseph's School, PK-8 (Edinburg); St. Mary's School, PK-6 (Brownsville); St. Luke's School, PK-8 (Brownsville); Our Lady of Sorrows School, PK-8 (McAllen); St. Anthony's School, PK-8 (Harlingen); Incarnate Word School, PK-8 (Brownsville); St. Martin de Porras School, PK-3 (Weslaco); Oratory Academy, PK-8 (Pharr); Our Lady of Guadalupe School, PK-6 (Mission); Immaculate Conception School, PK-8 (Rio Grande City).

Public broadcasting

The diocese's radio and television stations are operated under the license name of RGV Educational Broadcasting, Inc.[3]

  • KMBH (TV) DT 38 - PBS-member station
  • KJJF 88.9 FM and KHID 88.1 FM - NPR-member stations
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gollark: ... companies have research departments, you know, for stuff which will eventually be profitable.
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gollark: An important recentish discovery: blue LEDs. Those require exotic materials of some kind, as far as I know, and like all semiconductory stuff large amounts of complex machinery to produce them.
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See also

References
  1. "Diocese of Brownsville". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dbrow.html
  3. About Us

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