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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte (Dioecesis Carolinana), is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern United States. It includes of 46 counties in western North Carolina, which are divided into ten vicariates, named for and administered from Albemarle, Asheville, Boone, Gastonia, Greensboro, Hickory, Mecklenburg, Salisbury, Smoky Mountain and Winston-Salem.^[1] Charlotte and the Piedmont Triad are the largest metropolitan areas in the diocese. The Charlotte See is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

Canonically erected on November 12, 1971, by Pope Paul VI, the diocese took its territories from the neighboring Diocese of Raleigh.^[2] The Charlotte See is led by a bishop who serves as pastor of the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[2] Peter Joseph Jugis is the current bishop.^[3] The diocese is also home to two of the three basilicas in North Carolina, the Basilica of St. Lawrence and the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians.

History

The Diocese of Raleigh, established in 1924, was the first diocese in North Carolina.^[4] It included the entire State until the formation of the Diocese of Charlotte on January 12, 1972. At that time, Fr. Michael Begley, a priest in the Diocese of Raleigh, was ordained and installed as the first bishop of Charlotte.^[5] Bishop Begley served as ordinary of the diocese until his retirement at age seventy-five in May 1984, after which he served as apostolic administrator.^[4] When the new diocese was established, the Catholic population of the area was just over 34,000. Fr. John Donoghue, a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, succeeded Bishop Begley in late 1984, and was appointed Bishop of Charlotte by the Holy See on 6 November and installed on 18 December 1984.^[5] The population of Catholics in Charlotte continued to grow, and Bishop Donoghue declared in the early 1990s that it would be the Decade of Evangelization.^[4] Bishop Donoghue became Archbishop of Atlanta on 22 June 1993 and was succeeded by William G. Curlin, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington and Titular Bishop of Rosemarkie, on 13 April 1994.^[5] Bishop Curlin served the Diocese of Charlotte until his retirement on September 10, 2002. At this time, the population of the diocese had grown to approximately 87,000 people. On August 1, 2003, Pope John Paul II appointed Peter J. Jugis, judicial vicar and pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Monroe, North Carolina, as the fourth bishop of Charlotte, which he remains to this day. He was consecrated on October 24, 2003.^[5]

The total population of the diocese as of 2010 was approximately 4.8 million people. Of this number, 174,689 were registered Catholics (3.6% of the total population), living in a little over 63,000 households. This number does not include an estimated 230,000 undocumented Hispanic or Latino Catholics.^[6] The diocese encompasses three main areas of population: the Triad Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem; Charlotte; and the mountains. It covers {{convert|20700|sqmi|km2}}, and includes 46 counties.

Sexual abuse

On August 14, 2018 a grand jury report from Pennsylvania named 301 priests responsible for allegedly abusing over 1,000 children within six dioceses over the course of seventy years. One of the priests named in the report was Spiritan Fr. Robert Spangenberg, who for a time worked in North Carolina for both the Diocese of Charlotte as well as the Diocese of Raleigh. Spangenberg served as a priest at St. James Catholic Church in Hamlet in the 1990s. David Hains, spokesman for the Diocese of Charlotte, stated that the diocese had not received any information from Spangenberg's Pennsylvania-based order about any concerns regarding his ministry before or during his tenure in Hamlet and that there have been no claims of sexual abuse by Spangenberg from parishioners from North Carolina.^[7]

Older Mass Forms

In December 2007, 14 priests of the diocese attended a five-day workshop on the 1962 version of the Mass, recognized in July of that year as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite. Father Samuel Weber OSB was the first to offer a regularly scheduled Mass in that form in the Diocese of Charlotte since 1969. {{citation needed|date=February 2016}} He celebrated this mass in October 2007 at Davis Chapel of Wake Forest University.^[8] Bishop Jugis noted that it would take some time, but that the diocese was trying to accommodate those with an attachment to this form of Mass. On the following January 13, the Tridentine Latin Mass or usus antiquor (older form) was celebrated for the first time in nearly 40 years at Our Lady Of Grace Church in Greensboro, with Bishop Peter Jugis attending.

Roman Catholic bishops

Schools

Notable parishes

See also

References

1. ^{{cite web |title=Pastoral Report 2010 |publisher=Diocese of Charlotte |url=http://charlottediocese.org/images/main/books/bkcase-pastoral-2010/bkcase-pastoral-2010-index.html#/10/ |pages=10–11 |accessdate=2016-02-26}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=Welcome to the Cathedral of Saint Patrick |publisher=Cathedral of Saint Patrick |url=http://www.stpatricks.org/ |accessdate=2016-02-26}}
3. ^¹{{Catholic-hierarchy|diocese|dchan|Diocese of Charlotte|23 January 2015}}
4. ^¹²{{cite web| title=History of the Diocese| url=http://charlottediocese.org/history| publisher=Diocese of Raleigh| accessdate=2016-02-26}}
5. ^¹²³{{cite book| first=David| last=Hains| url=https://archive.org/details/voicesplacesofpe00davi| title=Voices and Places of the People of God| publisher=Éditions du Signe| location=Strasbourg |page=16| isbn=978-2746817371}}
6. ^{{cite web| publisher=Diocese of Charlotte| title=Statistical Overview 2010| work=Pastoral Report, 2010| page=4| url=http://charlottediocese.org/images/main/books/bkcase-pastoral-2010/bkcase-pastoral-2010-index.html#/4/| accessdate=2016-02-26}}
7. ^http://catholicnewsherald.com/news/90-news/local/3392-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct-by-priests-cover-up-by-church-leaders-have-people-talking
8. ^{{cite web| title=5 October: Holy Mass (1962) at Wake Forest Univ. in Diocese of Charlotte| publisher=Fr. Z's Blog| date=4 October 2007| accessdate=2016-02-26| url=http://wdtprs.com/blog/2007/10/5-october-holy-mass-1962-at-wake-forest-univ-in-diocese-of-charlotte/}}
9. ^{{cite web| title=Mecklenburg Area Catholic Schools| url=http://schools.charlottediocese.net/macs/about-macs| publisher=Diocese of Charlotte| accessdate=2016-02-26}}
10. ^{{cite web| title=Diocese of Charlotte Catholic Schools| url=http://schools.charlottediocese.org/index.php| publisher=Diocese of Charlotte| accessdate=2016-02-26}}