Diocese of Raleigh

DIOCESE OF RALEIGH (Dioecesis Raleighiensis)

Country: United States
Denomination: Roman Catholic

Established: 1868 as the Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina, becoming the Diocese of Raleigh in 1924
Additions: 1944 the territory of Belmont Abbey

Arms of the Vicariate of North Carolina from 1911.

Arms of the Diocese of Raleigh

Official blazon

Gules, a Latin cross throughout of nine fusils conjoined, four in pale and five in fess, argent.

Origin/meaning

The diamonds (or lozenges) have been derived from the arms of Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), after which the See city is named. His arms showed the lozenges in a bend, in the diocesal arms the lozenges have been placed in a Christian Cross.

Arms of Bishops

Arms of Auxiliary Bishops

James Johnston Navagh (1952-1957)
Charles Borromeo McLaughlin (1964-1968)
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George Edward Lynch (1970-1985)

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