New Orleans, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
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1793 CE to 2215 CE
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, (Latin: Archidioecesis Novae Aureliae, French: Archidiocèse de la Nouvelle-Orléans), is an ecclesiastical division of the Roman Catholic Church administered from New Orleans, Louisiana.
It is the second-oldest diocese in the present-day United States, having been elevated to the rank of diocese on April 25, 1793, by Pope Pius VI during Spanish colonial rule.
Our Lady of Prompt Succor and St. Louis, King of France are the patron saints of the Archdiocese and Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis is its mother church as St. Patrick's Church serves as the Pro-Cathedral of the Archdiocese.
Led by an archbishop, the Archdiocese of New Orleans is the center of a larger ecclesiastical province that encompasses the entire state of Louisiana.
The Metropolitan Province of New Orleans include the suffragan Dioceses of Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Houma-Thibodaux, Lafayette, Lake Charles, and Shreveport.
On June 12, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI names Bishop Gregory Michael Aymond of the Diocese of Austin to be Archbishop of New Orleans.
Archbishop Aymond is installed on August 20, 2009 at Saint Louis Cathedral.
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New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana west of the Mississippi had been surrendered to the Spanish in 1763.
From then until 1783 the two Floridas had been under British control, but as part of the Peace of Paris (1783) the two Florida colonies had been regained from Great Britain.
Thus, the pioneer parishes of New Orleans and Louisiana are incorporated into the Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas when it is established by Pope Pius VI on April 25, 1793.
The diocese originally encompasses the entire Louisiana Purchase, from the Gulf of Mexico to British North America, as well as the Florida peninsula and the Gulf Coast.
The date of its establishment makes it the second-oldest diocese in the present-day United States: the Diocese of Baltimore had been established on November 6, 1789.
At the time of its establishment, the territory of the Diocese of Louisiana and the Two Floridas is part of the Archdiocese of San Cristobal de la Habana, based in Havana, Cuba.