archdiocese
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Over the decades, the archdiocese leased the land to several oil companies including Standard Oil of California.
From Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles is the largest archdiocese in the United States, home to 3.8 million Catholics.
From Los Angeles Times
While Pope Leo spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, Hicks worked at an orphanage in El Salvador from 2005 to 2010, according to a biography released by the New York archdiocese.
From BBC
Pope Leo XIV has appointed a bishop from Illinois as the new leader of New York’s Catholic archdiocese, succeeding conservative Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is retiring.
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has told him in a letter from its legal counsel not to have anything to do with archdiocese schools.
From Los Angeles Times
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