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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, officially in Latin ''Dioecesis Rubribaculensis'', is a Latin Rite diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The diocese consists of 68 parishes, 2 ethnic apostolates, and 2 University chaplaincies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= History )〕 Its territory comprises an area of , being composed of twelve civil parishes in south central Louisiana: Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston, Pointe Coupée, Tangipahoa, St. Helena, St. James, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana. The current bishop is Robert William Muench. There are 106 total priests in the Diocese (71 diocesan priests of which 50 are active and 21 are inactive, 30 religious priests of which 24 are active and 6 are inactive, and 5 extern priests), 70 permanent deacons, 3 transitional deacons, 16 lay male religious (brothers), 90 female religious (nuns and sisters), and 17 seminarians.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Statistics )〕 The Catholic population is 215,298 out of a total population of 884,650 (24.3% of the population). ==Bishops== The list of ordinaries of the diocese and their years of service: #Robert Emmet Tracy (1961 - 1974) #Joseph Vincent Sullivan (1974 - 1982) #Stanley Joseph Ott (1983 - 1992) #Alfred Clifton Hughes (1993 - 2001) #Robert William Muench (2002 - present) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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