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.
- Plenty of action with Padua Academy’s ‘Newsies’; Archmere Academy up next with ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ — Photo gallery
If it sounded like heels clicking last week in the Wilmington neighborhood around Padua Academy, it was coming from the all-girls Catholic High School. Padua Academy performers were all over the stage with the musical “Newsies.” Based on the 1992 motion picture and inspired […]
- Bishop Koenig leads Holy Hour for Peace in Diocese of Wilmington at St. Peter Cathedral
WILMINGTON — Bishop Koenig, responding to a call from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, held a Holy Hour for Peace at St. Peter Cathedral in Wilmington the morning of Feb. 13. It was the second of seven such hours that will be held in the diocese over the next […]
- Four basketball players from Catholic high schools in Diocese of Wilmington get that 1,000-point feeling
Four basketball student-athletes at Catholic high schools in the Diocese of Wilmington have reached a career milestone in recent weeks. Za’Mylah Seda-Owens, Latrell Wright, Avery McCall and Bridget Malloy all scored their 1,000th career point. Seda-Owens, a senior at St. […]


