The Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville (Latin: Dioecesis Steubenvicensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese covering thirteen counties in Ohio. The diocese was erected by Pope Pius XII on October 21, 1944 out of territory from the Diocese of Columbus.
As of 2012 the Diocese was raising funds to build a new cathedral, Triumph of the Cross, in the West End of Steubenville, near Steubenville Catholic Central High School. The plans entail combining six parishes in the city of Steubenville (Holy Name Cathedral, Holy Rosary, St. Pius X, St. Anthony's, St. Stanislaus, and Servants of Christ the King) and building a centrally located Cathedral in order to better accommodate the decline in the area's population and in the number of ordained priests in the Diocese. The six individual parishes forming Triumph of the Cross parish were closed June 8, 2008. Triumph of the Cross parish meets in two locations as fund-raising continues for construction of the new cathedral.
The Diocese of Steubenville became a sede vacante (vacant see); on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, announced that Bishop Conlon was to be named Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet, Illinois (part of the Ecclesiastical Province of Chicago, Illinois) by Pope Benedict XVI, succeeding Archbishop James Peter Sartain, who was named Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle, Washington in September 2010. During the period of sede vacante, the vicar general, Kurt H. Kemo, was the diocesan administrator.
On Tuesday, July 3, 2012, in a Catholic News Service (CNS) online news brief release, and also in a Holy See Press Office news release from Vatican Information Service (VIS), it was stated that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed the Reverend Monsignor Jeffrey Marc Monforton, 49, as the fifth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville, Ohio. Bishop-elect Monforton had been assigned as a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan. He speaks English and Italian. His episcopal ordination and installation was to take place shortly thereafter. He succeeds Bishop R. Daniel Conlon, 63, who was named in May 2011 as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet, Illinois.
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