The
Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport is located in the south western part of the state of
Connecticut, and its boundaries are the same as that of
Fairfield County, Connecticut. There are 87 parishes in the
diocese. Its cathedral is St. Augustine in
Bridgeport.
The current bishop is
The Most Reverend William E. Lori, appointed March 19, 2001.
The diocese, is one of 195
Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States. It is one of four dioceses in the Ecclesiastical Province of Hartford—the others are the
Archdiocese of Hartford, the
Diocese of Norwich and the
Diocese of Providence.
The church with the greatest capacity in the diocese is
St. Mary's Church on Elm
Stamford, built in 1928.
Sacred Heart in
Georgetown is where Catholic writers
Flannery O'Connor and
Robert Fitzgerald worshipped in 1949-1952 when O'Connor was living in
Ridgefield as a boarder with the Fitzgeralds. ("The working day as we set it up that fall began with early Mass in Georgetown, four miles away," Fitzgerald wrote.)
Size
The diocese has more than 363,000 registered Catholics in Fairfield County, 43 percent of the total population.
Other statistics: "At...
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