Diocese of Belleville
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The Diocese of Belleville is a Roman Catholic diocese in the Southern Illinois region of the United States. It is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Chicago. The mother church is the Cathedral of S
Cathedral of Saint Peter
Bishop Janssen (1889)
Bishop Braxton (2009)
Cardinal Gregory (2024)
Wilton Gregory
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Wilton Daniel Gregory Jr. is an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Washington from 2019 to 2025. Pope Francis made him a cardinal in 2020, the first of African-American descent.
Diocese of Belleville
…Patrick Keleher of Chicago as the new bishop of Belleville. In 1993, Keleher transferred to become archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas. Auxiliary Bishop Wilton Gregory of Chicago was appointed bishop of Belleville in 1993. In 2004, John Paul II named Gregory as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta.John Paul II…
Archbishop Gregory at St. Augustine Church in Washington, D.C. (2019)
Archbishop Gregory celebrates Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (2019).