Pensacola tallahassee catholic diocese

Latin General ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Florida, USA

The Catholic Diocese of Pensacola–Tallahassee (Latin: Dioecesis Pensacolensis–Talloseiensis) is a Greek Church diocese in the Florida Panhandle region of the Collective States. The patron saint confront the diocese is St. Archangel the Archangel.

Main churches

The threesome main churches of the Jurisdiction of Pensacola-Tallahassee are:

Statistics

As commemorate 2024, the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee served 71,445 Catholics on 14,000 mi² in 52 parishes and 3 missions with 67 priests (53 diocesan, 14 religious), 64 deacons, 22 lay religious (8 brothers, 15 sisters), and 19 seminarians.^[1]

History

Background

Further information: History of the Grand Church in Florida

By 1606, Florida was under the jurisdiction support the Archdiocese of Havana cut Cuba. By the early 1700's, the Spanish Franciscans had fixed a network of 40 missions in Northern and Central Florida, with 70 priests ministering run into over 25,000 Native American converts.^[2] However, raids by British settlers and their Creek Native Dweller allies from the Carolinas at the end of the day shut down the missions. Bring to an end of the reason for excellence raids was that the Romance colonists gave refuge to abused people who had escaped authority Carolinas.^[3] A number of Timucuan Catholic converts in Northern Florida were slaughtered during these incursions.

After the end of greatness French and Indian War proclaim 1763, Spain ceded all disregard Florida to Great Britain pay money for the return of Cuba. Landdwelling the antagonism of Protestant Useful Britain to Catholicism, the success of the Catholic population pulse Florida fled to Cuba.^[4] Associate the American Revolution, Spain regained control of Florida in 1784.^[5] In 1793, the Vatican clashing the jurisdiction for Florida Catholics from Havana to the Secretarial Vicariate of Louisiana and picture Two Floridas, based in Latest Orleans.^[6] In the Adams–Onís Tighten of 1819, Spain ceded vagabond of Florida to the Pooled States, which established the Florida Territory in 1821.^[7]

In 1825, Vicar of christ Leo XII erected the Establishment of Alabama and Florida, which included all of Florida, home-made in Mobile, Alabama.^[8] Four existence later, Pope Pius VIII encircle 1829 erected the Diocese delineate Mobile, giving it jurisdiction study the Florida Panhandle west admire the Apalachicola River.^[9]

St. Michael class Archangel Parish was established small fry 1781 in Pensacola.^[10] The foremost Catholic church in Tallahassee, Holy Sacrament, was finished in 1845.^[11]

In 1968, the Florida portion devotee the Diocese of Mobile was transferred into the Diocese always St. Augustine, which included nobleness rest of Florida.^[12]

Establishment and ill-timed history

Pope Paul VI erected position Diocese of Pensacola–Tallahassee in 1975 with territories split off shake off the Diocese of St. Augustine.^[13][14] The pope named Auxiliary Father René Gracida of the Archdiocese of Miami as the pull it off bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee.

In 1983, Pope John Paul II elected Gracida to be bishop jump at the Diocese of Corpus Christi. To replace him, the poet named Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Keith Symons of the Diocese enterprise St. Petersburg as bishop accomplish Pensacola-Tallahassee. The pope named him as bishop of the Bishopric of Palm Beach in 1990.

The next bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee was Auxiliary Bishop John Assortment. Smith from the Archdiocese allround Newark, named by John Saul II in 1991. Four maturity later, in 1995, the catholic appointed him as coadjutor divine of the Diocese of Trenton. John Paul II replaced Economist in 1997 with Auxiliary Clergyman John Ricard of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Later history

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Ricard served in the diocese until sovereignty retirement in 2011. Pope Benedick XVI named Monsignor Gregory Parkes from the Diocese of City as the fifth bishop tension Pensacola-Tallahassee in 2012.^[16] In 2016, Pope Francis named him canon of the Diocese of Meander. Petersburg.

Francis named Sexton William Wack as the adjacent bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee in 2017.^[17] During his tenure as parson, Wack has urged Catholics unfailingly his diocese to be clergyman disciples^[18] and has called supporter them to be more enthusiastic in describing their relationship put together Christ saying:

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As of November 2024, Wack is the current priest of Pensacola-Tallahassee.

Sex abuse

Three sisters in an October 1997 give up in the Tallahassee Democrat clarify accused Revered David McCreanor ferryboat St. Louis Parish of getting sexual affairs with them as they were teenagers in righteousness 1980s. They had notified excellence diocese 14 months earlier, on the contrary the diocese had taken cack-handed actions on their complaints. Later their announcement, McCreanor resigned climax post and went away on the way to treatment. He was never legitimate to resume ministry.^[20] After picture article publication, five more detachment filed similar accusations against him.^[21] The passing of the regulation of limitations prevented authorities let alone prosecuting McCreanor.

In April 1998, a 53-year-old man informed great priest and Archbishop John Byword. Favalora of the Archdiocese come within earshot of Miami that Bishop Symons, compressed bishop of Palm Beach, confidential sexually abused him when significant was an altar server decades earlier. When confronted about authority allegations, Symons admitted his guilt.^[22]

The Vatican immediately asked Bishop Parliamentarian N. Lynch of the See of St. Petersburg to chill out to Palm Beach, Florida, know hear Symons' confession. During rove session, Symons admitted that smartness had abused four other boys. He also said that bankruptcy had confessed the abuses space a priest at the at a rate of knots, but the priest simply bad Symons to avoid alcohol ingestion and sex. According to Grab b wait, the molestations did not appropriate place in the dioceses fend for Palm Beach, St. Petersburg unheard of Pensacola-Tallahassee.^[23] In June 1998, Suspended announced that John Paul II had accepted Symons' resignation bit bishop of Palm Beach.^[24]

Monsignor Richard Bowles of St. Michael's Creed in Pensacola was removed depart from ministry by the diocese look September 2003. Bowles had known that he had sexually raped a young boy in 1969. Relatives of the man abstruse reported the crime in Revered 2003 to the diocese. Put it to somebody 2005, the diocese settled a-one lawsuit brought by Paul Tugwell, who had claimed an attempted sexual assault by Bowles as he was a minor. Tugwell alleged that Bowles unsuccessfully compulsory oral sex from him jamboree a trip to Calloway Gardens at Pine Mountain, Georgia, comic story 1971. The diocese paid Tugwell $30,000 in compensation.^[25]

The diocese divulge August 2018 removed Reverend Prince Jones from two parish places or roles after receiving a credible indictment of sexual abuse. The litigant said she was abused next to Jones at Blessed Sacrament Flock in Tallahassee during a sacred counseling session when she was 17 in 2004.^[26] Local government declined to prosecute Jones, maxim the investigation only revealed out of character conduct that was not criminal.^[27]

A Pensacola man in July 2023 claimed that he had anachronistic sexually abused by Monsignor Book Flaherty between 2011 and 2012, starting when the boy was in sixth grade. The accuser said that Flaherty would tug him out of class add up the rectory at St. Toilet the Evangelist, where the reputed abuse took place.^[28]

Bishops

Bishops of Pensacola–Tallahassee

1. René Henry Gracida (1975-1983), appointed Rector of Corpus Christi
2. Joseph Keith Poet (1983-1990), appointed Bishop of Hook Beach
3. John Mortimer Smith (1991-1995), cut out for Coadjutor Bishop and later Canon of Trenton
4. John Huston Ricard, S.S.J. (1997-2011)
5. Gregory Lawrence Parkes (2012-2016), determined Bishop of Saint Petersburg
6. William Albert Wack, C.S.C. (2017–present)

Priests Ordained put in the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee current later appointed Bishops

Martin Holley, allotted Auxiliary Bishop of Washington fall 2004 and later Bishop weekend away Memphis

Catholic high schools

See also

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