Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay

Located in the USA Diocese of Green Bay (lat.: Diocesis Sinus Viridis ), headquartered in Green Bay was on March 3, 1868 by Pope Pius IX. built by the separation of areas of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. It is a suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Milwaukee.

History

Pope Pius IX. erected the diocese on March 3, 1868. It covers 16 counties in northeastern Wisconsin on Lake Michigan.

The earliest Christian tracks in the territory of the present Diocese left Jesuit missionaries who crossed 1634 in the wake of the French explorer Jean Nicolet Lake Michigan. 1669 celebrated the Jesuit Claude -Jean Allouez with Indians on the feast of St. Francis Xavier Holy Mass and founded named after the Holy Indian mission. With the destruction of Fort Francis west of present-day Green Bay in 1728 ended in Catholic life for nearly a century. With the establishment of French-Canadian settlers began in 1825 again the foundation of church structures. In the 19th century founded the German, Belgian, Irish and Polish settlers own parishes, their linguistic independence broke up through marriage and the growing influence of English soon.

With the establishment of the Diocese Established in 1854, the German St. Mary's Church to the Cathedral was charged. In Green Bay's second Bishop Franz Xaver Krautbauer the present cathedral was built on the same site, which is dedicated to the diocese of saint Francis Xavier. Model of the cathedral is the church Ludwig in Munich. For the monumental altarpiece won Krautbauer the German Nazarenes Johann Schmitt.

Bishops of Green Bay

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