Diocese of Baker, USA 🇺🇸

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Name: Baker / Bakerien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Portland in Oregon

Neighbouring Dioceses: Sacramento (↙), Portland in Oregon (←), Seattle (↖), Yakima (↖), Spokane (↑), Boise City (→), Reno (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Francis de Sales (January 24)

Cathedral Dedication Anniversary: April 24

Liturgical Calendar 📅

History

1903.06.19: Established as Diocese of Baker City / Bakerien(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Oregon City and became suffragan of Oregon City)
1928.09.26: Became suffragan of Portland in Oregon
1952.02.16: Renamed as Diocese of Baker / Bakerien(sis) (Latin)

Contact Info

Address: Chancery Office, 911 S.E. Armour St., P.O. Box 5999, Bend, OR 97708, USA

Phone: +1 (541) 388-4004

Present Prelates

Bishop (2025.07.10 – ...):

Bishop Thomas Joseph Hennen (47)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Baker (Roman Rite)

Bishop Thomas Joseph Hennen (47)
(2025.07.10 – ...)

Bishop of Baker (USA)

Via veritas vita

Born:	1978.07.04 (Ottumwa, IA, USA)
Ordained Priest:	2004.07.10
Consecrated Bishop:	2025.09.29

Priest of Davenport (USA) (2004.07.10 – 2025.07.10)

Bishop of Baker (USA) (2025.07.10 – ...)

Bishop Liam Stephen Cary (78)
(2012.03.08 – 2025.07.10)

Bishop emeritus of Baker (USA)

Veritas vos liberabit

Born:	1947.08.21 (Portland, OR, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1992.09.05
Consecrated Bishop:	2012.05.18

Priest of Portland in Oregon (USA) (1992.09.05 – 2012.03.08)

Bishop of Baker (USA) (2012.03.08 – 2025.07.10)

Bishop William Stephen Skylstad (92)
(Apostolic Administrator 2011.01.24 – 2012.03.08)

Bishop Robert Francis Vasa (74)
(1999.11.19 – 2011.01.24)

Bishop of Santa Rosa (USA)

Unless a grain of wheat

Born:	1951.05.07 (Lincoln, NE, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1976.05.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.01.26

Priest of Lincoln (USA) (1976.05.22 – 1999.11.19)

Bishop of Baker (USA) (1999.11.19 – 2011.01.24)

Coadjutor Bishop of Santa Rosa (USA) (2011.01.24 – 2011.06.30)

Bishop of Santa Rosa (USA) (2011.06.30 – ...)

Bishop Thomas Joseph Connolly
(1971.05.04 – 1999.11.19)

I am spent and will be spent for you

Born:	1922.07.18 (Tonopah, NV, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1947.04.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1971.06.30
Died:	2015.04.24 (Beaverton, OR, USA † 92)

Bishop of Baker (USA) (1971.05.04 – 1999.11.19)

Bishop Francis Peter Leipzig
(1952.02.16 – 1971.04.26)

Maria me custodiat

Born:	1895.06.29 (Chilton, WI, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1920.04.17
Consecrated Bishop:	1950.09.12
Died:	1981.01.17 (Beaverton, OR, USA † 85)

Bishop of Baker City (USA) (1950.07.18 – 1952.02.16)

Bishop of Baker (USA) (1952.02.16 – 1971.04.26)

Bishops of Baker City (Roman Rite)

Bishop Francis Peter Leipzig
(1950.07.18 – 1952.02.16)

(see above)

Bishop Joseph Francis McGrath
(1918.12.21 – 1950.04.12)

Cum Maria

Born:	1871.03.01 (Kilmacow, Ireland)
Ordained Priest:	1895.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1919.03.25
Died:	1950.04.12 (Baker City, OR, USA † 79)

Bishop of Baker City (USA) (1918.12.21 – 1950.04.12)

Bishop Charles Joseph O’Reilly
(1903.06.25 – 1918.03.20)

In Domino confido

Born:	1860.01.04 (Carleton, NB, Canada)
Ordained Priest:	1890.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1903.08.25
Died:	1923.02.04 (Lincoln, NE, USA † 63)

Bishop of Baker City (USA) (1903.06.25 – 1918.03.20)

Bishop of Lincoln (USA) (1918.03.20 – 1923.02.04)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Leo Fabiano Fahey (1948.03.13 – 1950.04.01)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, Baker City, Oregon
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)

Churches by City (62)

Sacramento (↙), Portland in Oregon (←), Seattle (↖), Yakima (↖), Spokane (↑), Boise City (→), Reno (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 173,013 km²

Population: 30,437 Catholics (5.2% of 580,118 total)

Pastoral Centres: 36 parishes, 21 missions

Personnel: 44 priests (31 diocesan, 13 religious), 11 deacons, 24 religious (13 brothers, 11 sisters), 3 seminarians