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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis is a division of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. When it was originally erected as the Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana, on May 6, 1834, it encompassed all of Indiana as well as the eastern third of Illinois. It was renamed the Diocese of Indianapolis on March 28, 1898. Bishop Francis Silas Chatard, who had been living in Indianapolis since 1878 when he was appointed Bishop of Vincennes, became the first Bishop of Indianapolis. It was elevated from a diocese to a metropolitan archdiocese on October 21, 1944.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.archindy.org/history/general.html )〕 Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, OSB, in September 2011, due to illness. Auxiliary Bishop Christopher J. Coyne served as the Apostolic Administrator until the Pope's appointment of Joseph William Tobin on October 16, 2012.〔http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/world-news/detail/articolo/stati-uniti-united-states-estados-unidos-18973; http://ncronline.org/news/women-religious/tobin-sisters-friend-vatican-move〕 Per the 2000 census, the archdiocese contained 2,430,606 people, 233,273 of whom were Catholic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US18&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-T1&-ds_name=PEP_2009_EST&-_lang=en&-format=ST-2&-_sse=on )〕 The archdiocese covers 39 counties in central and southern Indiana, with a total area of 13,757 square miles.〔 ==Hierarchy== The archdiocese is normally headed by an archbishop, but the see was recently vacant, due to the resignation in September 2011 of Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, OSB,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.archindy.org/archbishop/bio.html )〕 on account of illness due to ongoing issues with cancer. Auxiliary Bishop Christopher J. Coyne,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.archindy.org/auxiliary/index.html )〕 who was ordained a bishop in March 2011, became the apostolic administrator, pending the installation of a new archbishop. In October 2012, Joseph William Tobin was appointed as the archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI.〔http://ncronline.org/news/women-religious/tobin-sisters-friend-vatican-move〕〔http://www.indystar.com/article/20121017/NEWS/121017027/Archdiocese-Indianapolis-plans-make-announcement-Thursday-about-its-next-leader〕 He was officially installed December 3, 2012. The lists of ordinaries of the archdiocese and their years of service: ;Ordinaries #Simon Bruté de Rémur (1834–1839) #Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière (1839–1847) #Jean Bazin (1847–1848) #Jacques-Maurice De Saint Palais (1848–1877) #Francis Silas Chatard (1878–1918) #Joseph Chartrand (1918–1925, 1925–1933) #Joseph Ritter (1934–1946) #Paul Schulte (1946–1970) #George Biskup (1970–1979) #Edward O'Meara (1979–1992) #Daniel Buechlein, O.S.B. (1992–2011) #Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R. (2012-) ;Auxiliary bishops *Christopher J. Coyne (2011–2015)〔As of January 29, 2015, he became Bishop of Burlington, Vermont.〕〔http://bishopcoyne.org/#about〕〔http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/12/22/pope_nominates_bishop_coyne_to_diocese_of_burlington,_usa/1115636〕 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 Archdiocese of Indianapolis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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