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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Gaylord
The Diocese of Gaylord () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the northern region of the lower peninsula of Michigan in the United States. The diocese is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Detroit. Territory The Diocese of Gaylord covers approximately . It comprises the 21 most northern counties of the lower peninsula of the state, and includes the cities of Gaylord, Traverse City, Alpena, Manistee and Petoskey. The diocese has a population of 505,000, 66,000 of whom are Catholic. It contains 77 parishes and 17 schools. History Early history During the 17th century, present-day Michigan was part of the French colony of New France. The Diocese of Quebec had jurisdiction over the region. In 1763, the Michigan area became part of the British Province of Quebec, forbidden from settlement by American colonists. After the American Revolution, the Michigan region became part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County (United States)
In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an Administrative division, administrative subdivision of a U.S. state, state or territories of the United States, territory, typically with defined geographic Border, boundaries and some level of governmental authority. The term "county" is used in 48 states, while Louisiana and Alaska have functionally equivalent subdivisions called List of parishes in Louisiana, parishes and List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska, boroughs, respectively. Counties and other local governments in the United States, local governments exist as a matter of U.S. state law, so the specific governmental powers of counties may vary widely between the states, with many providing some level of services to civil townships, Local government in the United States, municipalities, and Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated areas. Certain municipalities are List of U.S. municipalities in multiple counties, in multiple counties. Some municip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wexford County, Michigan
Wexford County is a county in the Northern Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 33,673. The seat of Wexford County is Cadillac, which is also the county's largest city. Wexford County is largely covered by the Manistee National Forest, and thus is heavily wooded. The Manistee River flows from east to west in the north of the county. Briar Hill, the highest point in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, is located in northwestern Wexford County, at . The county is the location of the first known sighting of the Michigan Dogman, in 1887. History The county was established by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Kautawaubet County, after a Potawatomi phrase meaning "broken tooth," and the name of a local Potawatomi chief. In 1843, legislators renamed the county Wexford, after County Wexford in Ireland. In 1851, Wexford County was attached to Grand Traverse County for administrative purposes. It was then attached to M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffragan Diocese
A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian denominations, in particular the Catholic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and the Romanian Orthodox Church. In the Catholic Church, although such a diocese is governed by its own bishop or ordinary, who is the suffragan bishop, the metropolitan archbishop has in its regard certain rights and duties of oversight. He has no power of governance within a suffragan diocese, but has some limited rights and duties to intervene in cases of neglect by the authorities of the diocese itself. See also * Suffragan bishop * Suffragan Bishop in Europe (a title in the Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Michigan
Northern Michigan (also known as Northern Lower Michigan and colloquially within Michigan as "Up North") is a region of the U.S. state of Michigan. The region, which is distinct from the more northerly Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Upper Peninsula and Isle Royale, which are also located in the north of the state, is bounded to the west by Lake Michigan, and to the east by Lake Huron. The Upper Peninsula is accessible from the region via the Mackinac Bridge. While the region's southern boundary is not precisely defined, most definitions include the northernmost 21 counties of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Lower Peninsula, which had a population of 506,658 people at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Its largest cities are Traverse City, Michigan, Traverse City, Cadillac, Michigan, Cadillac, Alpena, Michigan, Alpena, Ludington, Michigan, Ludington, Manistee, Michigan, Manistee, and Petoskey, Michigan, Petoskey. Like the Upper Peninsula, Northern Michigan is a popular tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Weisenburger
Edward Joseph Weisenburger (born 23 December 1960) is an Catholic Church in the United States, American Catholic prelate who has served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit, Archbishop of Detroit since 2025. He previously served as Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson, Bishop of Tucson from 2017 to 2025 and as Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina, Bishop of Salina from 2012 to 2017. Biography Edward Weisenburger was born in Alton, Illinois, on December 23, 1960, to Edward and Asella (Walters) Weisenburger. He grew up primarily in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he attended St. Barbara School and graduated from Eisenhower High School (Lawton, Oklahoma), Eisenhower High School in 1979. He began his studies at Conception Seminary College in Conception, Missouri, graduating with honors in 1983. and then attend the American College of the Immaculate Conception, American College Seminary at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He earned his Bachelor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Walsh
Jeffrey Joseph Walsh (born November 29, 1965) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Gaylord in Michigan. Biography Early life Jeffrey Walsh was born on November 29, 1965, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Jerome and Nancy Walsh. He has two brothers. Walsh attended Scranton Central High School, then entered the University of Scranton. Walsh graduated from there in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in health and human resources. In 1987, Walsh began his studies at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he earned a Master of Divinity. Priesthood Walsh was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Scranton on June 25, 1995, by Bishop James Clifford Timlin at St. Peter's Cathedral in Scranton. After his 1995 ordination, the diocese assigned Walsh as parochial vicar of Saint Rose of Lima Parish in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and as director of religious education at Sacred Heart High School in Carbonda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Lady Of Mount Carmel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or Virgin of Carmel, is a Roman Catholic Titles of Mary, title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated as patron saint, patroness of the Carmelites, Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th century. They built in the midst of their hermitages a Stella Maris Monastery, chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the "Lady of the place." Our Lady of Mount Carmel was adopted in the 19th century as the patron saint of Chile. Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has centred on the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Brown Scapular. Traditionally, Mary is said to have given the Scapular to an early Carmelite named Simon Stock (1165–1265). The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated on 16 July. In Spain, Puerto Rico Costa Rica, and even i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Rite
The Roman Rite () is the most common ritual family for performing the ecclesiastical services of the Latin Church, the largest of the ''sui iuris'' particular churches that comprise the Catholic Church. The Roman Rite governs Rite (Christianity), rites such as the Roman Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours as well as the manner in which Sacraments of the Catholic Church, sacraments and Blessing in the Catholic Church, blessings are performed. The Roman Rite developed in the Latin language in the city of Rome and, while distinct Latin liturgical rites such as the Ambrosian Rite remain, the Roman Rite has gradually been adopted almost everywhere in the Latin Church. In medieval times there were numerous local variants, even if all of them did not amount to distinct rites, yet uniformity increased as a result of the invention of printing and in obedience to the decrees of the Council of Trent of 1545–1563 (see ''Quo primum''). Several Latin liturgical rites which had survived into th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Church
The Latin Church () is the largest autonomous () particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics. The Latin Church is one of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites#Churches, ''sui iuris'' churches in full communion with the pope; the other 23 are collectively referred to as the Eastern Catholic Churches, and they have approximately 18 million members combined. The Latin Church is directly headed by the pope in his role as the bishop of Rome, whose ''cathedra'' as a bishop is located in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy. The Latin Church both developed within and strongly influenced Western culture; as such, it is sometimes called the Western Church (), which is reflected in one of the pope's traditional titles in some eras and contexts, the Patriarch of the West. It is also known as the Roman Church (), the Latin Catholic Church, and in some contexts as the Roman Catholic (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.Gerald O'Collins, O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites#Churches, ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and Eparchy, eparchies List of Catholic dioceses (structured view), around the world, each overseen by one or more Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the Papal supremacy, chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archdiocese Of Detroit
The Archdiocese of Detroit () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church covering the south-east portion of Michigan in the United States. The archdiocese consists counties of Lapeer County, Michigan, Lapeer, Macomb County, Michigan, Macomb, Monroe County, Michigan, Monroe, Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland, Saint Clair County, Michigan, St. Clair, and Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne. It is the metropolis (religious jurisdiction), metropolitan archdiocese of the List of Catholic dioceses in the United States#Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit, Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit, which includes all the dioceses in the state of Michigan. In 2000, the archdiocese accepted pastoral responsibility for the Catholic Church in the Cayman Islands. The Diocese of Detroit was erected on March 8, 1833, and elevated to an archdiocese on May 22, 1937. The Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament has served as the mother church of the archdiocese since 1938 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iosco County, Michigan
Iosco County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan; its eastern border is formed by Lake Huron. As of the 2020 census, its population was 25,237. Its seat of government is Tawas City. Etymology ''Iosco'' has traditionally been said to be a Native American word meaning "water of light", but was actually coined as a pseudo-Native American name by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an American geographer and ethnologist who served as the U.S. Indian agent in Michigan in the late 19th century. He named several counties and towns during the state's formative years. History The county was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Kanotin County, and renamed Iosco County in 1843. It was administered by a succession of other Michigan counties before the organization of county government in 1857. A majority of the population was Ojibwe. The area offered shelter from tall white pines and food from the river and lake. Iosco County was cut from a piece of land ceded by the Ojibwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
