Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
Archdiocese of Detroit Archidiœcesis Detroitensis | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | Michigan counties of Lapeer, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne |
Episcopal conference | United States Conference of Catholic Bishops |
Ecclesiastical region | Region VI |
Ecclesiastical province | Detroit |
Statistics | |
Area | 3,901 km2 (1,506 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2021) 4,325,465 1,131,660 ( 26.2%) |
Parishes | 224[1] |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | March 8, 1833 (191 years ago) |
Cathedral | Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament |
Patron saint | St. Anne |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Archbishop | Allen Henry Vigneron |
Auxiliary Bishops | |
Vicar General | Jeff Day |
Bishops emeritus | |
Map | |
Website | |
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The Archdiocese of Detroit (Latin: Archidiœcesis Detroitensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church covering the Michigan in the United States.
The archdiocese consists counties of Lapeer, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne. It is the metropolitan archdiocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Detroit, which includes all dioceses in the state of Michigan. In 2000, the archdiocese accepted pastoral responsibility[2] for the Catholic Church in the Cayman Islands.[3]
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. Ste. Anne's in Detroit is the second oldest continuously operating Catholic parish in the United States, dating back to 1701.[4][5] In the early 21st century the archdiocese faced a sexual abuse scandal, starting with four priests convicted in 2003 of sexual abuse of minors.
History
[edit]1600 to 1700
[edit]The first Catholic presence in present-day Michigan was that of the French Jesuit missionaries, Reverends Charles Raymbaut and Isaac Jogues. The two priests stopped near what is now Sault Ste. Marie in 1641 to visit the Chippewa Nation.[6]
In 1670, Reverend Claude Dablon established the first Catholic mission in the region on Mackinac Island. Reverend Jacques Marquette moved the mission off the island in 1671 to the mainland by the Straits of Mackinac.[7][8] By the late 1600s, Jesuits priests were exploring and setting up missions throughout the region.[6]
1700 to 1800
[edit]In 1701, the Diocese of Quebec took jurisdiction over missionary activity in Michigan, now part of the French colony of New France. In 1708, after the construction of Fort Pontchartrain in Detroit, the first permanent Catholic chapel was constructed in that community.[6]
When the British took control of New France after the French and Indian War ended in 1763, the Diocese of Quebec retained its jurisdiction there. After the end of the American Revolution, the British transferred control of Michigan to the new United States.[6] In 1789, Pope Pius VI erected the Diocese of Baltimore, with jurisdiction over Catholics in the entire United States. [9]
1800 to 1900
[edit]The new Michigan Territory was transferred in 1808 from the Diocese of Baltimore to the Diocese of Bardstown.[10]It was reassigned in 1821 to the Diocese of Cincinnati.[10]
Pope Gregory XVI erected the Diocese of Detroit on March 8, 1833, taking its territory from the Diocese of Cincinnati. He named Monsignor Frederick Rese from Cincinnati as its first bishop.[11] At the time, the new diocese covered a vast area in the American Midwest and Great Plains, extending through Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas to the Missouri River.[11] During Rese's tenure, the diocese was in poor financial health and suffered from financial mismanagement.
By 1837, Rese was incapable of administering the diocese due to mental health problems.[12] Gregory XVI recalled him to Rome and appointed Reverend Peter Paul Lefevere to take over its operation.[13] When Lefevere arrived in Detroit, there were only two parishes in the city and 25 in rest of the diocese, served by 18 priests. [14]
Lefevere went to Belgium to recruit priests and the Redemptorists were the first religious order to staff a parish. He established St. Thomas Seminary, most likely in his own home. With Bishop Martin Spalding of Louisville, Lefevere established the American College at Louvain in Belgium to educate new priests for the United States. Lefevere assigned four of his priests as the first four rectors of the college.[14]
In 1843, the Vatican transferred all the territory in the Diocese of Detroit outside of the new State of Michigan to the Diocese of Milwaukee.[11]
During Lefevere's time as coadjutor bishop, the number of parishes in the city increased to eleven and 160 in the diocese, with 80 priests. [14]
On July 29, 1853, Pope Pius IX formed the Vicarate Apostolic of Upper Michigan, with responsibility for the Upper Peninsula. The territory of the diocese would be further reduced to its current size by the organization of the dioceses of Grand Rapids (1882), Lansing (1937), and shortly after the see was elevated to the status of an archdiocese, Saginaw (1938).[1]
The son of Prussian Polish immigrants, Reverend John A. Lemke, born in Detroit on February 10, 1866, was the first native-born Roman Catholic priest of Polish descent to be ordained in America. He was baptized at St. Mary Roman Catholic Church (1843), at the corner of St. Antoine and Croghan (Monroe Street), on February 18, 1866, attended St. Albertus for his primary education, and studied at Detroit College (now the University of Detroit Mercy), where he received a bachelor's degree in 1884. After attending St. Mary's in Baltimore, he completed his theological studies at St. Francis Seminary in Monroe, Michigan, and he was ordained by Bishop John Samuel Foley in 1889. His added confirmation name was Aloysius.[15]
1900 to 2000
[edit]In 1921, the archdiocese published a poster prohibiting the provision of sterilization and abortion services in its hospitals. This became the basis of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.[16]
The Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament, located at 9844 Woodward Avenue, in Detroit has served as the mother church since 1938. Earlier cathedrals were: Ste. Anne de Detroit, 1833 to 1848;[17] Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 1848 to 1877;[18] 1877 to 1890, St. Aloysius (as pro-cathedral), 1890 to 1938, St. Patrick's Church at 124 Adelaide Street.[19]
In January 1989, Cardinal Edmund Szoka implemented a controversial plan to close 30 churches within the archdiocese. He also ordered 25 other parishes to improve their financial situation or face closure.[20] The plan resulted from a five-year study that analyzed maintenance costs, priest availability, parish income and membership before recommending closure of 43 parishes.[21]
The Association of Religion Data Archives indicated a Catholic membership in the archdiocese of 907,605.[22]
2000 to present
[edit]In May 2011, Archbishop Allen Vigneron announced that Pope Benedict XVI approved his request to name Saint Anne as patroness of the archdiocese. The papal decree stated that Saint Anne has been the city's patroness since time immemorial.[23]
In February 2012, Vigneron announced a second plan to consolidate churches to address declining membership and clergy availability within the archdiocese. Under the plan, two parishes would close in 2012 and 60 others were to consolidate into 21 by the end of 2013. Six additional parishes were asked to submit a viable plan to repay debt or merge with other churches and the remaining 214 parishes in the archdiocese were asked to submit plans by the end of 2012 to share resources or merge.[24]
Sexual abuse
[edit]In August 2002, Wayne County prosecutors indicted Reverends Harry Benjamin, Robert Burkholder, Edward Olszewski, and Jason E. Sigler on criminal sexual conduct charges. The four priests, all residing out of Michigan, had previously been incardinated in the Archdiocese of Detroit. They were all accused of sexually molesting 11 to 13 year old boys.[25]
In May 2019, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel indicted two priests who had previously served in the archdiocese:[26]
- Neil Kalina, a former priest at St. Kiernan Parish in Shelby Township, was indicted on four counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct in 1984 with a boy between the ages of 12 and 14 and for supplying the boy with cocaine and marijuana. He had left the priesthood in 1993 after a 1985 conviction for drug possession.[27] He was convicted and sentenced in July 2022 to up to 15 years in stated prison.[28]
- Reverend Patrick Casey was charged with raping a 24 year-old gay man. Casey was counseling the man, who was experiencing suicidal feelings, during confession when the assault occurred.[29]In October 2019, Casey pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of aggravated assault and was sentenced to 45 days in jail.[30] [31]
In July 2019, the archdiocese removed Reverend Eduard Perrone, pastor of Assumption Grotto Parish in Detroit from public ministry after determining that allegations that he sexually abused a child decades ago were "credible." Perrone denied the charges.[32] The archdiocese took action based on accusations from a Wayne County police detective who claimed that Perrone sexually assaulted a boy 40 years earlier. However, the alleged victim later retracted his allegations. In August 2020, Perrone received a $125,000 settlement from Wayne County for a defamation lawsuit he filed against the detective[33] That same month, 20 parishioners from Assumption Grotto sued the archdiocese. They claimed that the archdiocese framed Perrone on the sexual abuse allegations because he was a traditionalist Catholic priest who had allegedly exposed scandals in the archdiocese. [34]Perrone was found guilty of three violations of canon law in May 2022. He was allowed to resume public ministry, but could not return to Assumption Grotto.[35]
In July 2019, Reverend Joseph Baker was indicted on first-degree criminal sexual conduct with someone under age 13. The archdiocese had previously placed limits on his public ministry.[36] Baker was convicted in October 2022 and was sentenced to three to 15 years in prison.[37]
In September 2020, former archdiocesan priest Gary Berthiaume was arrested on charges sexually assaulting a teenager at the rectory of Our Lady of Sorrows in Farmington in 1977.[38] The same year, Berthiaume was arrested for sexually abusing two minors and served six months in the Oakland County Jail before being transferred out of the state of Michigan.[38] In October 2020, Nessel charged Berthiaume with second-degree sexual assault, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison if convicted.[39] In December 2020, Assistant Attorney General Danielle Russo Bennetts stated during a pre-trial hearing that further investigation revealed that Berthiaume had two other possible sex abuse victims..[40]
In December 2020, several male employees of Orchard Lake Schools in Orchard Lake, Michigan, sued their employer and Vigneron. They alleged that Reverend Miroslaw Krol, the director of the Schools, had sexually abused them. Although the Schools were located in the archdiocese, they were not operated by it. However, the lawsuit stated that Vigneron, as a member of the Schools board, knew about the accusations against Krol and did nothing about them.[41]
LGBTQ community
[edit]In 1974, Brian McNaught, a reporter and columnist for the Michigan Catholic newspaper, revealed in a Detroit News article that he was gay. The Michigan Catholic then dropped his column, citing space issues in the publication. In response, McNaught filed a complaint against the Catholic with the Human Rights Commission for the City of Detroit, claiming sexual discrimination. The newspaper ultimately fired him. McNaught later found the Detroit chapter of DignityUSA, an organization for LGBTQ Catholics.[42]
Vigneron in 2013 stated that he would not allow Catholics who support same-sex marriage to receive communion in the archdiocese. He said that taking communion while disagreeing with the church on this issue is "double-dealing that is not unlike perjury."[43]
In June 2020, the archdiocese fired the female music director at Auburn Hills for marrying a woman. In August 2020, Vigneron banned DignityUSA and Fortunate Families, a ministry for LGBTQ Catholics from gathering at churches in the archdiocese or having priests perform mass for them. He stated that the two groups were incompatible with the virtue of chastity.[44]
Vigneron wrote a pastoral letter in March 2024 to leaders of Catholic schools and other institutions in the archdiocese. It stated that all of their employees, students, and youth program participants "shall respect their God-given biological sex." Vigneron said that accommodating "individuals experiencing gender confusion" is dangerous. In a podcast following his letter, Vigneron called acceptance of transgender individuals "...a toxin that's been deposited in our culture" and compared transgenderism to a virus.[45]
Bishops and archbishops
[edit]Bishops
[edit]- Frederick Rese (1833–1871)
- Peter Paul Lefevere (coadjutor bishop 1841–1869); died before his succession as bishop - Caspar Borgess (1871–1887)
- John Samuel Foley (1888–1918)
- Michael Gallagher (1918–1937)
Archbishops
[edit]- Cardinal Edward Aloysius Mooney (1937–1958)
- Cardinal John Francis Dearden (1958–1980)
- Cardinal Edmund Casimir Szoka (1981–1990), appointed President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See and later President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and Governatorate of Vatican City State
- Cardinal Adam Joseph Maida (1990–2009)[46]
- Allen Henry Vigneron (2009–present)[47]
Current auxiliary bishops
[edit]- Arturo Cepeda (2011–present)
- Robert Joseph Fisher (2016–present)
- Paul Fitzpatrick Russell (2022–present), holds the title of Archbishop ad personam; not currently exercising public ministry.[48][49] [50]
- Jeffrey M. Monforton (2023-present)[51]
Former auxiliary bishops
[edit]- Edward D. Kelly (1910–1919), appointed Bishop of Grand Rapids
- Joseph C. Plagens (1924–1935), appointed Bishop of Sault-Sainte Marie-Marquette
- Stephen Stanislaus Woznicki (1937–1950), appointed Bishop of Saginaw
- Allen James Babcock (1947–1954), appointed Bishop of Grand Rapids
- Alexander M. Zaleski (1950–1964), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Lansing and subsequently succeeded to that see
- John Anthony Donovan (1954–1967), appointed Bishop of Toledo
- Henry Edmund Donnelly (1954–1967)
- Joseph M. Breitenbeck (1965–1969), appointed Bishop of Grand Rapids
- Walter Joseph Schoenherr (1968–1995)
- Thomas Gumbleton (1968–2006)
- Joseph Leopold Imesch (1973–1979), appointed Bishop of Joliet in Illinois
- Arthur Henry Krawczak (1973–1982)
- Dale Joseph Melczek (1982–1995), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Gary, and subsequently succeeded to that see after collateral assignment as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Gary (1992–1995)
- Patrick R. Cooney (1982–1989), appointed Bishop of Gaylord
- Moses Anderson, SSE (1982–2003)
- Bernard Joseph Harrington (1993–1998), appointed Bishop of Winona
- Kevin Michael Britt (1993–2002), appointed Coadjutor of Grand Rapids and subsequently succeeded to that see
- John Clayton Nienstedt (1996–2001), appointed Bishop of New Ulm
- Allen Henry Vigneron (1996-2003), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Oakland and subsequently succeeded to that see; later appointed Archbishop of Detroit
- Leonard Paul Blair (1999–2003), appointed Bishop of Toledo
- Earl Boyea (2002–2008), appointed Bishop of Lansing
- John M. Quinn (2003–2008), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Winona and subsequently succeeded to that see
- Francis R. Reiss (2003–2015)
- Walter A. Hurley (2003–2005), appointed Bishop of Grand Rapids
- Daniel E. Flores (2006–2009), appointed Bishop of Brownsville
- Michael J. Byrnes (2011–2016), appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Agana (Guam) and subsequently succeeded to that see
- Donald Hanchon (2011–2023)
- Gerard William Battersby (2016–2023), appointed Bishop of La Crosse
Other archdiocesan priests who became bishops
[edit]- Camillus Paul Maes, appointed Bishop of Covington in 1884
- Francis Clement Kelley, appointed Bishop of Oklahoma City in 1924
- William Francis Murphy, appointed Bishop of Saginaw in 1938
- Kenneth Edward Untener, appointed Bishop of Saginaw in 1980
- Alexander Joseph Brunett, appointed Bishop of Helena in 1994
- Jeffrey Marc Monforton, appointed Bishop of Steubenville in 2012
- Robert John McClory, appointed Bishop of Gary in 2019
Coat of arms
[edit]In June 2017, the archdiocese adopted a new coat of arms. It features the archdiocesan patroness St. Anne, three stars representing the Holy Trinity, a door representing Blessed Solanus Casey of Detroit, and waves representing the Great Lakes. It replaced a coat of arms featuring antlers and martlets that dated back to 1937.[52]
Churches and regions
[edit]The Archdiocese of Detroit is divided into four administrative regions:
- Central – City of Detroit
- Northeast – Macomb and St. Clair Counties
- Northwest – Oakland and Lapeer Counties
- South – Monroe County, the Downriver area of Detroit, and the cities of Dearborn, Livonia, and Plymouth
Each region is divided into vicariates.[53] Since 2021, to promote a missionary focus, the archdiocese has grouped its parishes into families, consisting of three or more parishes.[54]
Schools
[edit]In 1964, the archdiocese operated 360 schools with an enrollment of 203,000 students. These included 110 primary schools and 55 high schools in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park The Catholic school population decreased over the decades due to the increase of charter schools, the rise in tuition at Catholic schools, the small number of African-American Catholics, the exodus of White Catholics to the suburbs, and the decreased number of teaching nuns.[55]
As of 2013, the archdiocese had 96 schools with 30,000 students. There were four primary schools and three high schools in Detroit, all of them on the city's west side.[55]
Universities and colleges
[edit]- Madonna University- Livonia, Michigan
- Sacred Heart Major Seminary - Detroit
- University of Detroit Mercy - Detroit
Photo gallery
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Chapel of the Felician Sisters in Livonia, Michigan - architectural sculpture by Corrado Parducci (1961)
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Former Duns Scotus College
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Cardinal Maida outside of the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit
Suffragan sees
[edit]- Diocese of Gaylord
- Diocese of Grand Rapids
- Diocese of Kalamazoo
- Diocese of Lansing
- Diocese of Marquette
- Diocese of Saginaw
See also
[edit]- Catholic Church by country
- Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
- Polish cathedral style churches
- Religion in Metro Detroit
- List of Catholic dioceses in the United States
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References and further reading
[edit]- Godzak, Roman (2000). Archdiocese of Detroit (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-0797-2.
- Godzak, Roman (2004). Catholic Churches of Detroit (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-3235-6.
- Godzak, Roman (2000). Make Straight the Path: A 300 Year Pilgrimage Archdiocese of Detroit. Editions du Signe. ISBN 978-2-7468-0145-5.
- Hill, Eric J.; Gallagher, John (2003). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-3120-0.
- Muller, Herman Joseph (1976). The University of Detroit 1877-1977: A Centennial History. University of Detroit. ASIN B0006CVJ4S.
- Tentler, Leslie Woodcock (1992). Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2106-5.
- Tutag, Nola Huse; Hamilton, Lucy (1988). Discovering Stained Glass in Detroit. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-1875-1.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Archdiocese of Detroit Website (aodonline.org) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- Archdiocese of Detroit Website (archdioceseofdetroit.org) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- Archdiocese of Detroit at Catholic-Hierarchy.org
- Archdiocese of Detroit at GCatholic.org
- "Letter from Kerala Catholic Association to Reverend Adam J. Maida, Archbishop of Detroit" in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)