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Former diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Alaska, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Diocese of Juneau (Latin: Dioecesis Junellensis) was a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the northwestern United States, comprising the southeastern part of the state of Alaska. It was led by the bishop who served as pastor of the mother church, Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Juneau. The diocese of Juneau was a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Anchorage.
Diocese of Juneau Dioecesis Junellensis | |
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Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary | |
 Coat of arms | |
| Location | |
| Country |  United States |
| Territory |  Southeastern Alaska |
| Ecclesiastical province | Anchorage |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 37,566 sq mi (97,300 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2016) 79,557 10,574 (13.3%) |
| Parishes | 11 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | June 23, 1951 |
| Dissolved | May 19, 2020 |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Patron saint | St. Thérèse of Lisieux |
| Leadership | |
| Pope | Pius XII (first) Francis (last) |
| Bishop | Robert O'Flanagan (first) Andrew Bellisario (last) |
| Map | |
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| Website | |
| dioceseofjuneau.org | |
On May 19, 2020, the Diocese of Juneau was merged with the Archdiocese of Anchorage, which was renamed the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau, and Bishop Andrew Bellisario was elevated to Archbishop.[1]
The See of Juneau was erected on June 23, 1951, and took its territory from the former Apostolic Vicariate of Alaska. On October 3, 1951, Dermot O'Flanagan of Holy Family Church in Anchorage was installed as the first Bishop of Juneau and he served until 1968. While in office, Bishop O'Flanagan attended the Second Vatican Council.
In 2007, the Juneau diocese became vacant when the previous bishop, Michael W. Warfel, was appointed bishop of Great Falls–Billings.
On January 19, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI named Edward J. Burns, a priest of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, as Bishop of Juneau. He was installed on April 5, 2009. In December 2016, Pope Francis named Burns Bishop of Dallas.[2][3]
Pope Francis appointed Andrew E. Bellisario as bishop on July 11, 2017. He later became, concurrently, apostolic administrator of the Anchorage archdiocese. In 2020, these 2 jurisdictions were combined to form the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau, and he was appointed its archbishop.
The list of bishops and their years of service:
As of 2019:
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In the television series The Young Pope, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, the fictional Pope Pius XIII repeatedly assigned his enemies in the Curia to "Ketchikan, Alaska", to suffer its freezing weather and isolation. There is no such diocese, but it is a parish of the Diocese of Juneau.
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