{"id":470251,"date":"2025-12-25T06:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/470251\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:48:18","slug":"phoenix-surpasses-new-york-chicago-to-become-americas-2nd-largest-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/470251\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix surpasses New York, Chicago to become America\u2019s 2nd-largest diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phoenix_-_Cathedrale_Saints-Simon-et-Jude_-_2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-254411 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Phoenix_-_Cathedrale_Saints-Simon-et-Jude_-_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"  \/><\/a>According to statistics published in the recently released 2025 edition of The Official Catholic Directory, the Diocese of Phoenix has surpassed the Archdiocese of New York and the Archdiocese of Chicago to become the nation\u2019s second-largest diocese, exceeded only by Los Angeles. In the 2024 edition, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (3.82 million Catholics), Archdiocese of New York (3.26 million), Archdiocese of Chicago (2.08 million), Diocese of Phoenix (2.01 million), and Archdiocese of Boston (1.79 million) were the nation\u2019s five largest dioceses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/news\/headlines\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to statistics reported to the Directory\u2019s publisher by the dioceses themselves.<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to statistics published in the recently released 2025 edition of The Official Catholic Directory, the Diocese of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":470252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-470251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}