page_title: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
section_title: Province of Chicago
hierarchical_section_title: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago / Province of Chicago
caption_attribution_description: English: Diocesan map of the Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Chicago.
context_page_description: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago was established as a diocese in 1843 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1880. It serves the more than 2.3 million Catholics in Cook and Lake counties in Northeastern Illinois, in the United States, an area of 1,411 square miles. The archdiocese is divided into six vicariates and 31 deaneries.
  Blase Joseph Cupich was appointed Archbishop of Chicago in 2014 by Pope Francis, and is assisted by six episcopal vicars, who are each responsible for a vicariate. The cathedral parish for the archdiocese, Holy Name Cathedral, is in the Near North Side area of the see city for the diocese, Chicago. The Archdiocese of Chicago is the metropolitan see of the Province of Chicago. Its suffragan dioceses are the other Catholic dioceses in Illinois: Belleville, Joliet, Peoria, Rockford, and Springfield.
  Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago from 1982 to 1996, was arguably one of the most prominent figures in the Church in the United States in the post-Vatican II era, rallying progressives with his "seamless garment ethic" and his ecumenical initiatives.
context_section_description: Diocese of Belleville
  Diocese of Joliet in Illinois
  Diocese of Peoria
  Diocese of Rockford
  Diocese of Springfield in Illinois
caption: Province of Chicago
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