page_title: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
section_title: Bishops
hierarchical_section_title: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles / Bishops
caption_attribution_description: English: Mt. Rev. J.S. Alemany, O.S.D., first Archbishop of San Francisco, as shown in "Souvenir of Santa Clara College" published for the College's golden jubilee in 1901.
context_page_description: The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. state of California. Based in Los Angeles, the archdiocese comprises the California counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura. The cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, and its present archbishop is José Horacio Gómez. With approximately five million professing members, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is numerically the single largest diocese in the United States.
  The Archbishop of Los Angeles also serves as metropolitan bishop of the suffragan dioceses within the Ecclesiastical Province of Los Angeles, which includes the dioceses of Fresno, Monterey, Orange, San Bernardino, and San Diego.
  Following the establishment of the Spanish missions in California, the diocese of the Two Californias was established on 1840, when the Los Angeles region was still part of Mexico. In 1848, Mexican California was ceded to the United States, and the U.S. portion of the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Monterey.
caption: Joseph Sadoc Alemany
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