Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church, in the U.S. state of Washington. Headquartered in Seattle, the archdiocese encompasses all counties in the state west of the Cascade Range.Its present archbishop is J. Peter Sartain.
Its cathedral of the archiepiscopal see is St. James Cathedral in Seattle, and the former cathedral is the Proto-cathedral of St. James the Greater, in Vancouver, Washington.
The archdiocese succeeded to the Diocese of Nesqually headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, established in 1850 as a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Oregon City. In 1903, the episcopal see was moved to Seattle, and the diocese's name was changed to Diocese of Seattle in 1907. The diocese was elevated to Metropolitan archdiocesan status in 1951.
