Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden

Diocese of Camden
Dioecesis Camdensis
Location
Country United States
Territory South Jersey
Ecclesiastical province Metropolitan Province of Newark
Population
- Catholics
475,000 (34.5%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established December 9, 1937
Cathedral Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan
Metropolitan Archbishop

John Joseph Myers

Archbishop of Newark
Map
Website
camdendiocese.org

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden is a Latin Rite Roman Catholic diocese in New Jersey, United States, consisting of over seventy parishes and about 475,000 Catholics in the southern New Jersey counties of Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem.

The Bishop of Camden presides from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Camden, although most major ceremonies are held at Saint Agnes Catholic Church in Blackwood. Some liturgies are held at St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral, Camden.

Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan has been bishop of the diocese since 2013.

History

St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral

Pope Pius XI established the Diocese of Camden on December 9, 1937, by breaking it off from the Diocese of Trenton. The oldest parish is St. Mary (Gloucester City), which was founded in 1848.

On April 2, 2008, Bishop Joseph A. Galante announced the closing of roughly half of the parishes in the diocese. This followed a previous announcement of the closing of various Catholic schools. The Diocese of Camden was led by Bishop Galante until his resignation was accepted on Jan. 8, 2013.

School mergers and closures

Sacred Heart School was a Catholic elementary school (grades K-8) located in Mount Ephraim, New Jersey for 50 years, from 1947 to 1997. It was presided over by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden before closing in 1997 as the result of low enrollment and a pending merger. Students were transferred to Annunciation BVM School in Bellmawr, New Jersey.[1][2]

Annunciation School was subsequently closed by the diocese at the end of the following 2007-08 school year and was merged into the St. Francis de Sales elementary school in Barrington on its site as a new school, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.[3] This merged school lasted only one year. It closed after the 2008-09 school year in the face of further declining enrollment and rising costs.[4]



Ordinaries

The following are lists of bishops and auxiliary bishops of the diocese and their years of service:

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Camden Diocesan Center

Bishops

  1. † Bishop Bartholomew J. Eustace (1938–1956) Died December 11, 1956.
  2. † Bishop Justin J. McCarthy (1957–1959) Died December 26, 1959.
  3. † Archbishop Celestine Damiano (1960–1967) Died October 2, 1967.
  4. † Bishop George H. Guilfoyle (1968–1989) Retired on May 13, 1989; died June 11, 1991.
  5. † Bishop James T. McHugh (1989–1998) Appointed coadjutor bishop of Rockville Centre on December 7, 1998; succeeded to that see on January 4, 2000; died December 10, 2000.
  6. Bishop Nicholas Anthony DiMarzio (1999–2003) Appointed bishop of Brooklyn on August 1, 2003.
  7. Bishop Joseph A. Galante (2004–2013) Resignation accepted, January 8, 2013.
  8. Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan (2013–present)

Auxiliary Bishop

Priest of the diocese who became bishop

† = deceased

Schools

High schools

Ecclesiastical province

See also

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Patricia (27 April 1997). "Families Lament Plan To Close Sacred Heart Some Have Sent Children To The School In Mount Ephraim For Three Generations". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Our History". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Staff. "In the fall, different schools will open", Catholic Star Herald, June 19, 2008. Accessed August 25, 2013. "Annunciation, Bellmawr, will merge with St. Francis de Sales, Barrington, for a new school, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, at the Barrington site."
  4. ↑ Staff. "Catholic school in Barrington is shut down", The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 18, 2009. Accessed August 25, 2013. "Just one month after saying that Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Regional School in Barrington would reopen next year, the Diocese of Camden announced yesterday that it was closing the school for good. Bishop Joseph Galante explained in a letter that the school - in operation for just one year - had suffered an enrollment decline so steep that five pastors whose parishes sent children to Sacred Heart had urged him to close it."

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