Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago

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Archdiocese of Chicago Archidiœcesis Chicagiensis
Holy Name Cathedral
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Location
Country	United States
Territory	Counties of Cook and Lake
Ecclesiastical province	Chicago
Statistics
Area	1,411 sq mi (3,650 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2017) 5.94 million 2,079,000[1] (35%)
Parishes	216[1] (As of 1/2024)
Schools	154 archdiocesan-run[1] 34 non-archdiocesan-run[1]
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	November 28, 1843; 180 years ago (1843-11-28)
Cathedral	Holy Name Cathedral
Patron saint	Immaculate Conception[citation needed]
Secular priests	672[1]
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Blase J. Cupich[2]
Auxiliary Bishops	Mark Andrew Bartosic Robert Gerald Casey Jeffrey S. Grob Robert J. Lombardo
Vicar General	Robert Gerald Casey[3]
Bishops emeritus	John R. Gorman Francis J. Kane George J. Rassas Joseph N. Perry Andrew P. Wypych
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Website
archchicago.org

The Archdiocese of Chicago (Latin: Archidiœcesis Chicagiensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, an archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Northeastern Illinois, in the United States. It was established as a diocese in 1843 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1880. It serves the more than 2 million Catholics in Cook and Lake counties in the state of Illinois, an area of 1,411 square miles (3,650 km²). The archdiocese is divided into six vicariates and 31 deaneries.

Blase Joseph Cupich was appointed Archbishop of Chicago in 2014 (and Cardinal in 2016) by Pope Francis, and is assisted by six episcopal vicars, who are each responsible for a vicariate (region). The cathedral parish for the archdiocese, Holy Name Cathedral, is in the Near North Side area of the see city for the diocese, Chicago. The Archdiocese of Chicago is the metropolitan see of the Province of Chicago. Its suffragan dioceses are the other Catholic dioceses in Illinois: Belleville, Joliet, Peoria, Rockford, and Springfield.

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago from 1982 to 1996, was arguably one of the most prominent figures in the church in the United States in the post-Vatican II era, rallying progressives with his "seamless garment ethic" and his ecumenical initiatives.^[4]