Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archidiocesis Paulopolitana et Minneapolitana
The coat of arms of the archdiocese
Location
Country	United States
Ecclesiastical province	Saint Paul and Minneapolis
Statistics
Area	6,187 sq mi (16,020 km2)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 3,177,207 825,000 (26%)
Parishes	188
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Established	July 19, 1850 (166 years ago)
Cathedral	Cathedral of Saint Paul (Saint Paul)
Co-cathedral	Basilica of Saint Mary (Minneapolis)
Patron saint	Saint Paul
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Bernard Hebda
Auxiliary Bishops	Andrew H. Cozzens
Emeritus Bishops	Harry Joseph Flynn John Clayton Nienstedt Lee A. Piché
Map
Website
www.archspm.org

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis (Latin: Archidioecesis Paulopolitana et Minneapolitana) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States. It is led by the prelature of an archbishop which administers the archdiocese from the cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. The archbishop has both a cathedral and co-cathedral: the mother church, the Cathedral of Saint Paul in the city of Saint Paul and the co-cathedral, the Basilica of Saint Mary in the city of Minneapolis.

The archdiocese has 188 parish churches in twelve counties of Minnesota. It counts in its membership an approximate total of 750,000 people. It has two seminaries, the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity and Saint John Vianney College Seminary. Its official newspaper is The Catholic Spirit.

Prior to the founding of the diocese, the territory that made up the diocese at the time of its founding was under the jurisdiction of a number of different Catholic prelates. Most of these were purely academic as there was no Catholic presence in the area. Among the more notable of these was the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and the Dubuque Diocese. During this later period the church first came into the area with the arrival of missionaries and European settlers.