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Diocese of Phoenix
The Diocese of Phoenix (Latin: Dioecesis Phoenicensis; Spanish: Diócesis de Phoenix) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, in western and central Arizona in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
The Diocese of Phoenix was established on December 2, 1969. As of 2023, the bishop of Phoenix is John P. Dolan.
The Diocese of Phoenix includes Maricopa, Mohave, Yavapai, and Coconino counties and the Gila River Indian Reservation in Pinal County. It excludes the Navajo Nation territory.
The first Catholic in modern-day Arizona was Marcos de Niza, a French Franciscan friar. He traveled up from the Gulf of California into Southern Arizona in 1539.
Spanish Jesuit priests arrived in present-day northern Mexico in the 1610s in the lowlands near the Pacific Ocean. They worked out a compromise with the people of the Yaqui River valley that allowed for the establishment of over fifty mission settlements. However, this arrangement broke down when the Jesuits attempted to end the Yaqui shamanic religious tradition.
The Opata people allowed the Jesuits to set up missions in the Pima and Tohono O'odham territories in present-day Arizona.An agreement between General Pedro de Perea and the viceroy of New Spain resulted in the formation of the Province of Nueva Navarra in 1637. It was renamed the Province of Sonora in 1648.
The most famous Jesuit missionary in the region was Reverend Eusebio Kino. He arrived in Nueva Navarra in 1687 and started missionary work in the Pimería Alta area. He began his first mission at Cucurpe in the present-day Mexican State of Sonora, then established churches and missions in Los Remedios, Imuris, Magdalena, Cocóspera, San Ignacio, Tubutama and Caborca. To develop an economy for the natives, Kino taught them European farming techniques.He established the Mission San Xavier del Bac in the Tohono O’odham Nation in present-day Tucson in 1692.
With the end of the Mexican War of Independence in 1821, the Franciscans and other religious orders abandoned their missions in Nueva Navarra and other areas of New Spain. When Mexico ceded the Southwest to the United States after the Mexican-American War in 1848, the Catholics in the region came under the following ecclesiastical jurisdictions:
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Diocese of Phoenix
The Diocese of Phoenix (Latin: Dioecesis Phoenicensis; Spanish: Diócesis de Phoenix) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, in western and central Arizona in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
The Diocese of Phoenix was established on December 2, 1969. As of 2023, the bishop of Phoenix is John P. Dolan.
The Diocese of Phoenix includes Maricopa, Mohave, Yavapai, and Coconino counties and the Gila River Indian Reservation in Pinal County. It excludes the Navajo Nation territory.
The first Catholic in modern-day Arizona was Marcos de Niza, a French Franciscan friar. He traveled up from the Gulf of California into Southern Arizona in 1539.
Spanish Jesuit priests arrived in present-day northern Mexico in the 1610s in the lowlands near the Pacific Ocean. They worked out a compromise with the people of the Yaqui River valley that allowed for the establishment of over fifty mission settlements. However, this arrangement broke down when the Jesuits attempted to end the Yaqui shamanic religious tradition.
The Opata people allowed the Jesuits to set up missions in the Pima and Tohono O'odham territories in present-day Arizona.An agreement between General Pedro de Perea and the viceroy of New Spain resulted in the formation of the Province of Nueva Navarra in 1637. It was renamed the Province of Sonora in 1648.
The most famous Jesuit missionary in the region was Reverend Eusebio Kino. He arrived in Nueva Navarra in 1687 and started missionary work in the Pimería Alta area. He began his first mission at Cucurpe in the present-day Mexican State of Sonora, then established churches and missions in Los Remedios, Imuris, Magdalena, Cocóspera, San Ignacio, Tubutama and Caborca. To develop an economy for the natives, Kino taught them European farming techniques.He established the Mission San Xavier del Bac in the Tohono O’odham Nation in present-day Tucson in 1692.
With the end of the Mexican War of Independence in 1821, the Franciscans and other religious orders abandoned their missions in Nueva Navarra and other areas of New Spain. When Mexico ceded the Southwest to the United States after the Mexican-American War in 1848, the Catholics in the region came under the following ecclesiastical jurisdictions:
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