THE SAYING is sure: If any one aspires to the office of bishop, he desires a noble task. Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher, no drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and no lover of money. 
HE MUST  manage his own household well...for if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for God's church? He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil; moreover he must be well thought of by outsiders, or he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.  [1Tim 3:1-7] 
 
Artist: Victor Luciano Rebuffo
(1903 - 1983)
Buenos Aires, Argentina

ABOUT THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON

ON DECEMBER 29, 2004, Pope John Paul II created a second archdiocese in Texas, raising the Diocese of Galveston-Houston to the status of a Metropolitan Archdiocese.  The archdiocese is led by Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston.  Suffragan dioceses include Austin, Beaumont, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Tyler, and Victoria.

THE ARCHDIOCESE of Galveston-Houston itself is composed of ten counties in the southeastern area of Texas. It includes Harris County and the City of Houston as well as Galveston County and Galveston, the Mother Seat of the Church in Texas.  The archdiocese includes eight other counties as well.  They are Austin, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Grimes, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Walker and Waller counties. Today more than 1.5 million Catholics live within archdiocesan boundaries, making the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston the largest in the state of Texas and the eleventh largest in the United States.

 

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