Diocese of Marquette, USA 🇺🇸

Continent: North America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Marquette / Marquetten(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Detroit

Neighbouring Dioceses: Superior (←), Sault Sainte Marie (↗), Gaylord (↘), Green Bay (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1937.01.03: Established as Diocese of Marquette / Marquetten(sis) (Latin) (from the suppressed Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie–Marquette and became suffragan of Milwaukee)
1937.05.22: Became suffragan of Detroit

Contact Info

Address: 444 S. Fourth St., P.O. Box 1000, Marquette, MI 49855, USA

Phone: +1 (906) 225-1141

Present Prelates

Bishop (2013.12.17 – ...):

Bishop John Francis Doerfler (61)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Marquette (Roman Rite)

Bishop John Francis Doerfler (61)
(2013.12.17 – ...)

Bishop of Marquette (USA)

Evangelii gaudium

Born:	1964.11.02 (Appleton, WI, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1991.07.13
Consecrated Bishop:	2014.02.11

Priest of Green Bay (USA) (1991.07.13 – 2013.12.17)

Bishop of Marquette (USA) (2013.12.17 – ...)

Bishop Alexander King Sample (65) (later Archbishop)
(2005.12.13 – 2013.01.29)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Portland in Oregon (USA)

Vultum Christi contemplari

Born:	1960.11.07 (Kalispell, MT, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1990.06.01
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.01.25

Priest of Helena (USA) (1990.06.01 – 2005.12.13)

Bishop of Marquette (USA) (2005.12.13 – 2013.01.29)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Portland in Oregon (USA) (2013.01.29 – ...)

Bishop James Henry Garland (94)
(1992.10.06 – 2005.12.13)

Bishop emeritus of Marquette (USA)

Born:	1931.12.13 (Wilmington, OH, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1959.08.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1984.07.25

Priest of Cincinnati (USA) (1959.08.15 – 1984.06.02)

Titular Bishop of Garriana (1984.06.02 – 1992.10.06)

Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati (USA) (1984.06.02 – 1992.10.06)

Bishop of Marquette (USA) (1992.10.06 – 2005.12.13)

Bishop Mark Francis Schmitt
(1978.03.21 – 1992.10.06)

Born:	1923.02.14 (Algoma, WI, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1948.05.22
Consecrated Bishop:	1970.06.24
Died:	2011.12.14 († 88)

Priest of Green Bay (USA) (1948.05.22 – 1970.04.30)

Titular Bishop of Ceanannus Mór (1970.04.30 – 1978.03.21)

Auxiliary Bishop of Green Bay (USA) (1970.04.30 – 1978.03.21)

Bishop of Marquette (USA) (1978.03.21 – 1992.10.06)

Bishop Charles Alexander K. Salatka (later Archbishop)
(1968.01.10 – 1977.10.11)

Come Holy Spirit

Born:	1918.02.26 (Grand Rapids, MI, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1945.02.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1962.03.06
Died:	2003.03.17 (Oklahoma City, OK, USA † 85)

Priest of Grand Rapids (USA) (1945.02.24 – 1961.12.09)

Titular Bishop of Cariana (1961.12.09 – 1968.01.10)

Auxiliary Bishop of Grand Rapids (USA) (1961.12.09 – 1968.01.10)

Bishop of Marquette (USA) (1968.01.10 – 1977.10.11)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Oklahoma City (USA) (1977.10.11 – 1992.11.24)

Bishop Thomas Lawrence Noa
(1947.08.25 – 1968.01.05)

Born:	1892.12.18 (Iron Mountain, MI, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1916.12.23
Consecrated Bishop:	1946.03.19
Died:	1977.03.13 (Marquette, MI, USA † 84)

Priest of Grand Rapids (USA) (1916.12.23 – 1946.02.22)

Titular Bishop of Salona (1946.02.22 – 1947.08.25)

Coadjutor Bishop of Sioux City (USA) (1946.02.22 – 1947.08.25)

Bishop of Marquette (USA) (1947.08.25 – 1968.01.05)

Titular Bishop of Talaptula (1968.01.05 – 1970.12.31)

Bishop Francis Joseph Magner
(1940.12.21 – 1947.06.13)

Born:	1887.03.18 (Wilmington, IL, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1913.05.17
Consecrated Bishop:	1941.02.24
Died:	1947.06.13 († 60)

Priest of Chicago (USA) (1913.05.17 – 1940.12.21)

Bishop of Marquette (USA) (1940.12.21 – 1947.06.13)

Bishop Joseph Casimir Plagens
(1937.01.03 – 1940.12.16)

Born:	1880.01.29 (Czeszewo, Poland)
Ordained Priest:	1903.07.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1924.09.30
Died:	1943.03.31 (Grand Rapids, MI, USA † 63)

Priest of Detroit (USA) (1903.07.05 – 1924.05.22)

Titular Bishop of Rhodiapolis (1924.05.22 – 1935.11.16)

Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit (USA) (1924.05.22 – 1935.11.16)

Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie–Marquette (USA) (1935.11.16 – 1937.01.03)

Bishop of Marquette (USA) (1937.01.03 – 1940.12.16)

Bishop of Grand Rapids (USA) (1940.12.16 – 1943.03.31)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Peter Cathedral, Marquette, Michigan
Former Cathedral: Holy Name of Mary Proto-Cathedral, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Churches by City (99)

Superior (←), Sault Sainte Marie (↗), Gaylord (↘), Green Bay (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 42,416 km²

Population: 64,280 Catholics (21.3% of 301,396 total)

Pastoral Centres: 73 parishes, 3 missions

Personnel: 75 priests (70 diocesan, 5 religious), 34 deacons, 39 religious (5 brothers, 34 sisters), 5 seminarians