Diocese of Wilmington

Our Diocese

Who We Are

For over 150+ years the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington has been called and commissioned to:

Be a community of faith living the love poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
To proclaim the good news of salvation announced through Jesus Christ and confided to the Church.
To celebrate in liturgy, especially in Eucharist, the saving act of God in Christ.
To strengthen our allegiance to the Gospel and deepen our understanding of it.
To serve all our brothers and sisters as Jesus taught us.

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Maryland Catholic Conference Statement on HB 1378

...there is no principled basis for treating victims of child sexual abuse in state institutions differently from those who suffered abuse in private institutions.

Physician-assisted suicide legislation returns to Delaware & Maryland

We need your help to protect Delaware’s vulnerable citizens! House Bill 140, that legalizes physician-assisted suicide, has passed the House and is on its way to the Senate. (Read about…

It is the Season of Lent

Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate…

Jubilee 2025

Bishop Koenig announces local Jubilee sites for pilgrimage - the Cathedral of St. Peter PLUS six perpetual adoration chapels.

14th CYM Pilgrimage for youth and their families

Join hundreds of others on Saturday, April 12, 2025, as we walk the streets of Wilmington carrying the Pilgrimage Cross with Bishop Koenig.

Reconciliation Monday is coming on April 14th

Our fourth annual Reconciliation Monday will take place on Monday, April 14 from 3 until 8 p.m. All parishes in the Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore will be holding confessions.

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Bishop William E. Koenig

Meet Our Bishop

Bishop Koenig was ordained to the Episcopacy by the Most Reverend William E. Lori, Metropolitan Archbishop of Baltimore, and installed as the 10th Bishop of the Diocese of Wilmington at a Mass on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, at St. Elizabeth Church, Cedar and Clayton Streets in Wilmington, Delaware.

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