Diocese of Toledo in America Dioecesis Toletana in America | |
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 Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral | |
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| Location | |
| Country |  United States |
| Territory | The counties ofAllen,Crawford,Defiance,Erie,Fulton,Hancock,Henry,Huron,Lucas,Ottawa,Paulding,Putnam,Richland,Sandusky,Seneca,Van Wert,Williams,Wood andWyandot in northwestern Ohio. |
| Ecclesiastical province | Cincinnati |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 8,222 sq mi (21,290 km2) |
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| Parishes | 123 |
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| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | April 15, 1910 (115 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral |
| Patron saint | Our Lady of the Rosary(principal) Francis de Sales(secondary) |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Bishop | Daniel Edward Thomas |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Robert Gerald Casey |
| Vicar General | Rev. Msgr. William Kubacki |
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| Website | |
| toledodiocese.org | |
TheDiocese of Toledo (in America) (Latin:Dioecesis Toletana in America) is aLatin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, or diocese, of theCatholic Church covering nineteen counties in northwesternOhio in the United States.
The diocese is asuffragan see of the metropolitanArchdiocese of Cincinnati. TheSee city for the diocese isToledo. The eighth and current bishop of Toledo isDaniel Thomas.Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral is the mother church of the diocese.
During the 17th century, present-day Ohio was part of the French colony ofNew France. The Diocese of Quebec, had jurisdiction over the region. However, unlike other parts of the futureAmerican Midwest, there were no attempts to found Catholic missions in Ohio.
In 1763,Ohio Country became part of the BritishProvince of Quebec, forbidden from settlement by American colonists. After theAmerican Revolution ended in 1783,Pope Pius VI erected in 1784 thePrefecture Apostolic of the United States, encompassing the entire territory of the new nation. In 1787, the Ohio area became part of theNorthwest Territory of the United States. Pius VI created theDiocese of Baltimore, the first diocese in the United States, to replace the prefecture apostolic in 1789.[1][2]
In 1808,Pope Pius VII erected theDiocese of Bardstown in Kentucky, with jurisdiction over the new state of Ohio along with the other midwest states.Pope Pius VII on June 19, 1821, erected theDiocese of Cincinnati, taking all of Ohio from Bardstown.[3] In 1842, the first Catholic church in Toledo, St. Francis de Sales, was constructed.[4]
Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Cleveland in 1847, with territory taken from Cincinnati. Northwest Ohio would be part of the Diocese of Cleveland for the next 63 years.
Pius X erected the Diocese of Toledo on April 15, 1910, in territory taken from the Diocese of Cleveland.[5][6] The pope named Auxiliary BishopJoseph Schrembs of theDiocese of Grand Rapids as the first bishop of the new diocese. Schrembs requested that theSisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota, send nuns to Toledo to work with Polish immigrant children. Sister Adelaide Sandusky, director of theCollege of St. Teresa, and 22 other sisters began teaching in Toledo schools. This community became the Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania[7] From 1911 to 1921, Schrembs established 13 new parishes and 33 schools. At Schrembs' invitation, Visitation nuns came to Toledo in 1915 from theirGeorgetown monastery in Washington, D.C.[8]
In 1921,Pope Pius XI appointed Schrembs as bishop of Cleveland. His replacement in Toledo was ReverendSamuel Stritch, named by Pius XI in 1921. During his tenure as bishop, Stritch establishedMary Manse College in Toledo in 1922 and incorporated the diocesanCatholic Charities in 1923. He also began construction of Holy Rosary Cathedral, whose cornerstone was laid by CardinalJános Csernoch in 1926.[9] In 1930, Pius XI named Stritch as archbishop of theArchdiocese of Milwaukee. To replace Stritch, the pope named ReverendKarl Alter, the first priest from Toledo to become its bishop.
During his tenure as bishop, Alter completed construction of Holy Rosary Cathedral in Toledo and built an addition toCentral Catholic High School in Toledo. He establishedDeSales College in Toledo in 1942 and donated a 12-acre (49,000 m2) parcel of land in East Toledo for the construction ofSt. Charles Hospital. In 1950, after 20 years as bishop of Toledo, Alter was named archbishop of Cincinnati byPope Pius XII.
Alter was replaced in Toledo by Auxiliary BishopGeorge Rehring of Cincinnati by Pius XII in 1950. He retired in 1967. Pope Paul VI then named Auxiliary BishopJohn Donovan from theArchdiocese of Detroit as the new bishop of Toledo.
Donovan implemented the reforms of theSecond Vatican Council in the diocese by joining the Ohio Council of Churches, and establishing apermanent diaconate and achancery office for divorced, separated, and widowed Catholics.[10] In 1967, he issued apastoral letter endorsingopen housing ballot initiative, which was defeated in a cityreferendum that fall.[11] He also established the Diocesan Development Fund and special programs for Spanish-speaking,African American and elderly Catholics.[10] During his tenure, Donovan also established Resurrection Parish inLexington in 1969 and St. Joan of Arc Parish inToledo in 1978. The Catholic population in the diocese increased from 301,000 to 348,000.[10] Donovan retired in 1980.
The next bishop of Toledo was Auxiliary BishopJames Hoffman, appointed by Pope John Paul II in 1980. Hoffman died in 2003 and was replaced by Auxiliary BishopLeonard Blair of Detroit, named by John Paul II. On May 9. 2005, Blair directed the Sisters of St. Francis to cancel a three-workshop byNew Ways Ministry at the order's campus inTiffin.[12] In stating his objections, Blair stated:
The positions of New Ways Ministry are not at all in accord with the guidelines for pastoral care which the bishops of the United States issued in 2006 regarding 'Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination.[12]
ReverendGerald Robinson was convicted in 2006 of the 1980 murder of SisterMargaret Ann Pahl at Mercy Hospital in Toledo. Pahl had been strangled and stabbed 31 times. Prosecutors in 1980 did not charge Robinson, who denied any guilt, citing insufficient evidence. The Pahl case was reopened in 2003 after a diligent reexamination of the case file. Robinson was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, where he died in 2014.[13]
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In July 2011, Blair told parishes andparochial schools in the diocese not to raise funds for theSusan G. Komen Foundation. He cited concerns that the money could be used to fundembryonic stem-cell research.[14]Pope Francis appointed Blair as archbishop of theArchdiocese of Hartford in 2013. Francis in 2014 appointed Auxiliary BishopDaniel Thomas from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia as the new bishop in Toledo.
As of 2023, Thomas is the bishop of Toledo. That same year, the diocese had a weekly attendance of 52,840 people at its 123 parishes. This is a decline of 43.23% from 2014, when the church recorded a weekly attendance of 75,681.[15]
In 1988, Reverend Robert J. Fisher, then associate pastor at St. Rose Church in Perrysburg, pleaded guilty to sexual imposition and contributing to the sexual abuse of a minor. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and four years of counseling.[16] In 1992, Bishop Hoffman returned Fisher to active ministry.[17]
Following a new policy from theU.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on priests convicted of sexual abuse, Hoffman permanently suspended Fisher and three other priests from ministry in 2002. Hoffman blamed "the media climate" for the new policy and said he had no plans to remove other such priests. He later declared, "My difficulty withzero tolerance is that theGospel teaches reconciliation. We believe in forgiveness."[17]
The diocese announced in 2004 that it had settled 23 lawsuits by victims of sexual abuse by diocesan priests; the diocese would pay $1.19 million.[18]
In August 2020, theFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Reverend Michael Zacharias, a diocesan priest, on charges ofsex trafficking, coercion and enticement.[19] Zacharias was accused of grooming and engaging in sexual conduct with three boys since the late 1990s.[19] He introduced his victims to pain medications andheroin, then convinced them to engage inprostitution once they had developed drug dependencies. Zacharias was convicted in May 2023 of five counts of sex trafficking.[20]
In September 2020, theToledo Blade reported that there were flaws in the diocese's efforts to combat sex abuse, such as the lack ofpsychological evaluations.[21]
In the coat of arms for the Diocese of Toledo, the field is one half blue (dexter) and one half red (sinister). A silver tower with a red cross appears on the field.[24] This coat of arms is based on the coat of arms for theCity of Toledo in Spain.
HeraldistPierre de Chaignon la Rose designed the diocesan arms in 1912. The formal heraldicblazon isPer pale azure and gules, a tower triply-turreted, the central turret the tallest, argent, charged with a cross-humetty of the second.[25]
The Diocese of Toledo covers 8,222 square miles (21,290 km2) in the following counties:
Williams,Defiance,Paulding,Van Wert,Fulton,Henry,Putnam,Allen,Lucas,Wood,Hancock,Ottawa,Sandusky,Seneca,Wyandot,Crawford,Erie,Huron, andRichland.[26]
As of 2016, the diocese had approximately 319,907 Catholics out of an area population of 1,465,561.[26]
The Diocese of Toledo as of 2014 had 124 parishes.
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In 2014, the Diocese of Toledo had the following personnel:
In 2018, the diocese had the following personnel:
As of 2018, the Diocese of Toledo had:
Catholic Radio began broadcasting in the Diocese of Toledo in 2010, beginning withWJTA followed byWNOC. Several local stations owned by separate entities. These include:
WNOC 89.7 FM is licensed toBowling Green and is based inToledo as "Annunciation Radio". It has four sister stations:
Other stations in the diocese include:
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