Diocese of Joliet, USA

Continent: North America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Joliet / Joliet in Illinois / Iolietten(sis) in Illinois (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Chicago

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Websites:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Francis Xavier (December 3)

Cathedral Dedication Anniversary: May 26 (1955)

Liturgical Calendar 📅

History

1948.12.11: Established as Diocese of Joliet / Joliet in Illinois / Iolietten(sis) in Illinois (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chicago, Diocese of Peoria and Diocese of Rockford and became suffragan of Chicago)

Contact Info

Address: Blanchette Catholic Center, 16555 Weber Road, Crest Hill, IL 60403-8719, USA

Phone: +1 (815) 221-6100

Present Prelates

Bishop (2020.07.17 – ...):	Bishop Ronald Aldon Hicks (57)
Auxiliary Bishop (2024.09.27 – ...):	Bishop Dennis Edward Spies (56) Titular Bishop of Cenculiana

Ordinaries

Bishops of Joliet (Roman Rite)

Bishop Ronald Aldon Hicks (57)
(2020.07.17 – ...)

Bishop of Joliet (USA)

Paz y Bien

Born:	1967.08.04 (Chicago, IL, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1994.05.21
Consecrated Bishop:	2018.09.17

Priest of Chicago (USA) (1994.05.21 – 2018.07.03)

Titular Bishop of Munatiana (2018.07.03 – 2020.07.17)

Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (USA) (2018.07.03 – 2020.07.17)

Bishop of Joliet (USA) (2020.07.17 – ...)

Bishop Richard Edmund Pates (81)
(Apostolic Administrator 2019.12.27 – 2020.07.17)

Bishop Robert Daniel Conlon (76)
(2011.05.17 – 2020.05.04)

Bishop emeritus of Joliet (USA)

Take courage

Born:	1948.12.04 (Cincinnati, OH, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1977.01.15
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.08.06

Priest of Cincinnati (USA) (1977.01.15 – 2002.05.31)

Bishop of Steubenville (USA) (2002.05.31 – 2011.05.17)

Bishop of Joliet (USA) (2011.05.17 – 2020.05.04)

Bishop James Peter Sartain (72) (later Archbishop)
(2006.05.16 – 2010.09.16)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Seattle (USA)

Of you my heart has spoken

Born:	1952.06.06 (Memphis, TN, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1978.07.15
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.03.06

Priest of Memphis (USA) (1978.07.15 – 2000.01.04)

Bishop of Little Rock (USA) (2000.01.04 – 2006.05.16)

Bishop of Joliet (USA) (2006.05.16 – 2010.09.16)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Seattle (USA) (2010.09.16 – 2019.09.03)

Bishop Joseph Leopold Imesch
(1979.06.30 – 2006.05.16)

The Lord is near

Born:	1931.06.21 (Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1956.12.16
Consecrated Bishop:	1973.04.03
Died:	2015.12.22 († 84)

Titular Bishop of Pomaria (1973.02.08 – 1979.06.30)

Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit (USA) (1973.02.08 – 1979.06.30)

Bishop of Joliet (USA) (1979.06.30 – 2006.05.16)

Bishop Romeo Roy Blanchette
(1966.07.19 – 1979.01.30)

Kyrie eleison

Born:	1913.01.06 (USA)
Ordained Priest:	1937.04.03
Consecrated Bishop:	1965.04.03
Died:	1982.01.10 († 69)

Titular Bishop of Maxita (1965.02.08 – 1966.07.19)

Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet (USA) (1965.02.08 – 1966.07.19)

Bishop of Joliet (USA) (1966.07.19 – 1979.01.30)

Bishop Martin Dewey McNamara
(1948.12.17 – 1966.05.23)

Domine ut serviam

Born:	1896.05.12 (USA)
Ordained Priest:	1922.12.23
Consecrated Bishop:	1949.03.07
Died:	1966.05.23 († 70)

Bishop of Joliet (USA) (1948.12.17 – 1966.05.23)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Joseph Mark Siegel (61) (2009.10.28 – 2017.10.18)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop James Edward Fitzgerald (2002.01.11 – 2003.06.05)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Roger Louis Kaffer (1985.04.25 – 2002.08.15)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Daniel Leo Ryan (1981.08.14 – 1983.11.22)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Daniel William Kucera, O.S.B. (later Archbishop) (1977.06.06 – 1980.03.05)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Raymond James Vonesh (1968.01.05 – 1991.05.07)
Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Romeo Roy Blanchette (1965.02.08 – 1966.07.19)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus, Joliet, Illinois
National Shrine: National Shrine of Mary Immaculate, Queen of Universe, Lombard, Illinois
National Shrine: National Shrine of St. Therese, Darien, Illinois
Former Cathedral (now secular): Former Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus, Joliet, Illinois
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)

Churches by City (132)

Peoria (↙), Rockford (↖), Chicago (↗), Gary (→), Lafayette in Indiana (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 10,925 km²

Population: 626,600 Catholics (32.3% of 1,937,400 total)

Pastoral Centres: 118 parishes

Personnel: 267 priests (176 diocesan, 91 religious), 226 deacons, 439 religious (129 brothers, 310 sisters), 20 seminarians