Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Island

Diocese of Grand Island Dioecesis Insulae Grandis
Catholic
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Coat of arms
Location
Country	United States
Territory	28 counties and the parts of Dawson, Lincoln and Keith counties north of the Platte River in central and western Nebraska
Episcopal conference	United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Ecclesiastical region	Region IX
Ecclesiastical province	Omaha
Statistics
Area	42,000 sq mi (110,000 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2016) 320,000 56,600 (17.7%)
Parishes	73
Schools	11
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	March 8, 1912 (Diocese of Kearney) April 11, 1917 (Diocese of Grand Island)
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Patron saint	Blessed Virgin Mary
Secular priests	63
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Joseph G. Hanefeldt[1]
Metropolitan Archbishop	George Joseph Lucas
Bishops emeritus	William Joseph Dendinger
Map
Website
gidiocese.org

The Diocese of Grand Island (Latin: Dioecesis Insulae Grandis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in northwestern and central Nebraska in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Omaha.^[2]

The cathedral parish is the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Grand Island.^[3] As of 2023, the bishop of Grand Island is Joseph G. Hanefeldt, who was installed on March 19, 2015.^[4]