Diocese of Rapid City, USA 🇺🇸

Continent: North America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Rapid City / Rapidopolitan(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Saint Paul and Minneapolis

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Websites:

Celebrations

Cathedral Dedication Anniversary: May 7

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1930.08.01: Established as Diocese of Rapid City / Rapidopolitan(us) (Latin) (from the suppressed Diocese of Lead and became suffragan of Saint Paul)

Contact Info

Address: 606 Cathedral Dr., P.O. Box 678, Rapid City, SD 57709-0678, USA

Phone: +1 (605) 343-3541

Present Prelates

Bishop (2024.06.25 – ...):

Bishop Scott Edward Bullock (62)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Rapid City (Roman Rite)

Bishop Scott Edward Bullock (62)
(2024.06.25 – ...)

Bishop of Rapid City (USA)

Surgite eamus

Born:	1963.10.26 (Royal Oak, MI, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1991.06.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2024.09.23

Priest of Dubuque (USA) (1991.06.22 – 2024.06.25)

Bishop of Rapid City (USA) (2024.06.25 – ...)

Bishop Peter Michael Muhich
(2020.05.12 – 2024.02.17)

Exemplum dedi vobis

Born:	1961.05.13 (Eveleth, MN, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1989.09.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2020.07.09
Died:	2024.02.17 (Rapid City, SD, USA † 62)

Priest of Duluth (USA) (1989.09.29 – 2020.05.12)

Bishop of Rapid City (USA) (2020.05.12 – 2024.02.17)

Bishop Robert Dwayne Gruss (70)
(2011.05.26 – 2019.05.24)

Bishop of Saginaw (USA)

No greater love

Born:	1955.06.25 (Texarkana, AK, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1994.07.02
Consecrated Bishop:	2011.07.28

Priest of Davenport (USA) (1994.07.02 – 2011.05.26)

Chaplain of His Holiness (2007 – 2011.05.26)

Bishop of Rapid City (USA) (2011.05.26 – 2019.05.24)

Bishop of Saginaw (USA) (2019.05.24 – ...)

Bishop Blase Joseph Cupich (76) (later Cardinal)
(1998.07.06 – 2010.06.30)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Bartolomeo all’Isola
Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago (USA)

Peace be with you

Born:	1949.03.19 (Omaha, NE, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1975.08.16
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.09.21
Created Cardinal:	2016.11.19

Priest of Omaha (USA) (1975.08.16 – 1998.07.06)

Prelate of Honour of His Holiness (1995.09.08 – 1998.07.06)

Bishop of Rapid City (USA) (1998.07.06 – 2010.06.30)

Bishop of Spokane (USA) (2010.06.30 – 2014.09.20)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago (USA) (2014.09.20 – ...)

Cardinal-Priest of S. Bartolomeo all’Isola (2016.11.19 [2016.11.20] – ...)

Bishop Charles Joseph Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. (81) (later Archbishop)
(1988.04.11 – 1997.03.18)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia (USA)

As Christ loved the Church

Born:	1944.09.26 (Concordia, KS, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1970.08.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1988.07.26

Bishop of Rapid City (USA) (1988.04.11 – 1997.03.18)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Denver (USA) (1997.03.18 – 2011.07.19)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia (USA) (2011.07.19 – 2020.01.23)

Bishop Harold Joseph Dimmerling
(1969.09.11 – 1987.12.13)

Keep the faith

Born:	1914.09.23 (Braddock, PA, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1940.05.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1969.10.30
Died:	1987.12.13 († 73)

Bishop of Rapid City (USA) (1969.09.11 – 1987.12.13)

Bishop William Tibertus McCarty, C.SS.R.
(1948.03.11 – 1969.09.11)

Deus det nobis pacem

Born:	1889.08.11 (Crossingville, PA, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1915.06.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1943.01.25
Died:	1972.09.14 († 83)

Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Vicariate of United States of America (USA) (1943.01.02 – 1947.04.10)

Titular Bishop of Anæa (1943.01.02 – 1948.03.11)

Coadjutor Bishop of Rapid City (USA) (1947.04.10 – 1948.03.11)

Bishop of Rapid City (USA) (1948.03.11 – 1969.09.11)

Titular Bishop of Rotdon (1969.09.11 – 1971.01.13)

Bishop John Jeremiah Lawler
(1930.08.01 – 1948.03.11)

Deus providebit

Born:	1862.08.04 (Rochester, MN, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1885.12.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1910.05.19
Died:	1948.03.11 (Rapid City, SD, USA † 85)

Titular Bishop of Hermopolis maior (1910.02.08 – 1916.01.29)

Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Paul (USA) (1910.02.08 – 1916.01.29)

Bishop of Lead (USA) (1916.01.29 – 1930.08.01)

Bishop of Rapid City (USA) (1930.08.01 – 1948.03.11)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop William Tibertus McCarty, C.SS.R. (1947.04.10 – 1948.03.11)
Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Leo Ferdinand Dworschak (1946.06.22 – 1947.04.10)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Rapid City, South Dakota
Former Cathedral: Church of the Immaculate Conception, Rapid City, South Dakota
Former Cathedral: St. Patrick’s Church, Lead, South Dakota
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)

Churches by City (85)

Cheyenne (↙), Great Falls–Billings (↖), Bismarck (↑), Sioux Falls (→), Omaha (↘), Grand Island (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 111,327 km²

Population: 23,668 Catholics (9.7% of 245,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 72 parishes, 4 missions

Personnel: 50 priests (38 diocesan, 12 religious), 32 deacons, 38 religious (15 brothers, 23 sisters), 11 seminarians