Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville consists of twenty-four counties in the central American state of Kentucky, covering 8,124 square miles . As of 2018, the archdiocese contains approximately 200,000 Catholics in 66,000 households, served by one hundred twenty-two parishes and missions staffed by one hundred sixty-six diocesan priests, one hundred twelve permanent deacons, fifty-two religious institute priests, seventy-seven religious brothers, and nine hundred forty-four religious sisters. One half of all Catholics in the Commonwealth of Kentucky reside within the archdiocese, and seventy-nine percent of all Catholics in the archdiocese reside in the Louisville metropolitan area. There are fifty-nine Catholic elementary and high schools serving more than 23,400 students. The archdiocese serves more than 220,000 persons in Catholic hospitals, health care centers, homes for the aged, and specialized homes. Services, mother-infant care program, senior social services, and rural ministries services. The cathedral church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of the Assumption. It is the seat of the metropolitan see of the Province of Louisville, which encompasses the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.

The Archdiocese of Louisville is the oldest inland diocese in the United States, but not the oldest diocese west of the Appalachians. That distinction belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, erected in territory under Spanish rule in 1793 that became part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

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