Talk:Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore

Only two cities?
What about Newark with its Pro-Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Newark and Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Basilica, Newark? Joshuaschroeder 04:57, 18 August 2005 (UTC)


 * One could make the same argument with St. Louis, since it has the Old Cathedral and the New Cathedral. However, the Old Cathedral is technically no longer a cathedral since it no longer has a cathedra.  We can apply the same standard to Newark.  If there is still a cathedra in the Pro-Cathedral, then Newark would qualify.  However, pro-cathedral means "temporary cathedral," so I'm going to guess that since the completion of Sacred Heart, Saint Patrick no longer has a cathedra.  Since I've never been to the place, though, I could be wrong. Pmadrid 06:41, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

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Oldest diocese
The article is careful to make the distinction that the diocese is the oldest in the US as its border were at any given time. Could someone add which ones with in the current borders of the US are older? -Rrius (talk) 03:35, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * To obtain some answers to your question, you might want to reach out to a larger audience (of fellow editors/users) by posting your question on the talk page at List of the Catholic dioceses of the United States. Merry Christmas. Eagle4000 (talk) 17:15, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

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list of Other Affiliated Bishops
I added the word "Other" to exclude those already listed as bishop of the diocese or as coadjutor or as auxiliary. I made some changes which I will list in the next paragraph, but I have a question as to how the order of this listing was determined. I see it's not alphabetical, and it is not QUITE chronological; did you mean for it to be chronological? As far as I am concerned, if I "inherit" a chronological listing, that's OK; however, I did anonymous editing for other dioceses where I had to erect such a list from scratch, and when I have done that, I have used alphabetical order and listed each man's 1st assignment as bishop, and not later assignments (although I will mention becoming a cardinal).

Today, in this list for the Baltimore archdiocese, I did not change the order of listing despite my question above. HOWEVER, I had to fix the chronological order for Thomas Becker (he was Bishop of Wilmington and THEN of Savannah), and had to note Spencer as auxiliary (NOT the Archbishop) for the Military. For Philip Hannan, I added the years of service in the Baltimore archdiocese (I understand it was called Baltimore-Washington at the time), and I do this when the ending date is not the beginning of his service elsewhere as bishop. (Philip Hannan was not yet a bishop in 1947; he switched over to Washington when that archdiocese and Baltimore received separate archbishops, then he became auxiliary bishop of Washington in 1956.) Carlm0404 (talk) 20:22, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Piece of Virginia in 1846 and 1850
I added that in the text as another territory loss of this Archdiocese. Sorry I forgot to comment in the editing section. DC was formed from parts of Maryland and Virginia, and the Virginia part was returned to that state in 1846, but that action could not change diocese boundaries, so that piece of Virginia stayed in the Baltimore Archdiocese at that time. Carlm0404 (talk) 05:41, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Parishes removed
We have decided, at WikiProject Catholicism, that parishes and schools be removed from diocesan articles per WP:NOT (Wikipedia is not a directory). It leads to bloat and long article length. Thank you for understanding. Elizium23 (talk) 22:15, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Elizium23 (talk) 22:16, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Archdiocese bankruptcy
It is being reported that the Archdiocese of Baltimore has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to impending sexual abuse lawsuits. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/religion/archdiocese-of-baltimore-bankrupcy-NUAADGKF6FAO3EEUMSLCIZZ3SE/ 142.162.123.252 (talk) 20:07, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Popular Culture or Media Portrayal
Moved Netflix reference to "Popular Culture" section, but maybe "Media portrayal" would be a better header in line with how organizations are labeled. If someone could provide some direction on this, that would be cool. Magjozs (talk) 23:42, 1 October 2023 (UTC)