The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern United States. The Diocese of Arlington comprises 68 parishes located in the 21 northern-most counties within the Commonwealth of Virginia, including the Northern Virginia counties of Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick, King George, Lancaster, Loudoun, Madison, Northumberland, Orange, Page, Prince William, Rappahannock, Richmond, Shenandoah, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Warren and Westmoreland, and Cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Manassas, Manassas Park, and Winchester. The Most Rev. Paul S. Loverde, a bishop, currently leads the Diocese of Arlington. The bishop resides at the Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Arlington County, Virginia. In 2007, there were 258 priests who ministered to 402,541 registered Catholics in the Diocese of Arlington. The total population within the Diocese of Arlington, both Catholics and non-Catholics, was 2,715,932.
The Diocese of Arlington also has two missions in the Dominican Republic-- Banica Mission Parish and Pedro Santana Mission Parish, which are overseen by the diocesan Office of the Propagation of the Faith. The Director of the Propagation of the Faith in the Diocese of Arlington is currently Fr. Patrick L. Posey, who also serves as Pastor of St. James Church in Falls Church.
The diocese was canonically erected on May 28, 1974 by Pope Paul VI. The parishes which comprise the Diocese of Arlington were ceded from the neighboring Diocese of Richmond.
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