The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati covers the Cincinnati metropolitan area, the greater Dayton area and other communities in the southwest region of the state of Ohio in the United States. In total it encompassed 230 parishes in 19 counties, as of 2005, with the total membership of baptized Catholics ca. 500,000. ^* The diocese also administers 110 associated parochial schools and diocesan elementary schools.

The City of Cincinnati became the see of the Diocese of Ohio, which later became the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

The following is a list of the Catholic Archbishops of the former Diocese of Ohio and the Archdiocese of Cincinnati (terms of service in parentheses).

• Bishop Edward Fenwick (1822-1833)
• Bishop John Baptist Purcell (1833-1883)
• Archbishop William Henry Elder (1883-1903)
• Archbishop Henry K. Moeller (1903-1925)
• Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas (1925-1950)
• Archbishop Karl Joseph Alter (1950-1969)
• Archbishop Paul Francis Leibold (1969-1972)
• Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin (1972-1982)
• Archbishop Daniel Edward Pilarczyk (1982-present)

The diocese is served by The Catholic Telegraph, the diocesan newspaper, which is described on its website as the United States' oldest continuously published Catholic diocesan newspaper.

Schools

There are 22 Catholic high schools in the diocese. Some were named for bishops and archbishops of the diocese and the surname of those honored was included in the name. These schools are listed and include city or township and county:

• Archbishop Alter High School (Co-ed) - Kettering/Montgomery County
• Archbishop Carroll High School (Coed) - Dayton/Montgomery County
• Catholic Central (Coed) - Springfield/Clark County
• Chaminade-Julienne High School (Co-ed) - Kettering/Montgomery County
• Elder High School (Male) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• (Reverend) Father Stephen T. Badin High School (Coed) - Hamilton/Butler County
• Fenwick High School (Co-ed) - Franklin Township/Warren County
• La Salle High School (Male) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• Lehman Catholic High School (Coed) - Sidney/Shelby County
• McCauley High School (Female) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• Archbishop McNicholas High School (coed) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• Archbishop Moeller (Male) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• Mother of Mercy High School (Female) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• Mount Notre Dame High School (Female) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• Purcell Marian High School (Coed) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• Roger Bacon High School - (Coed) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• Seton High School - (Female) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• St. Rita School for the Deaf High School (Coed) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• St. Ursula Academy (Female) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• St. Xavier High School (Male) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• The Summit Country Day School (Coed) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County
• Ursuline Academy (Female) - Cincinnati/Hamilton County

Several of these schools are named after former archbishops of the diocese. Some Catholic high schools in the diocese are not operated by the diocese, for example Chaminade-Julienne is not diocesan, being operated instead by the Marianist order. Likewise St. Xavier is operated by the Jesuit order. A parochial elementary school in Dayton is named after Archbishop Liebold.

External links

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati official homepage

Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, Ohio