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.
- Good Grief: Finding hope and achieving growth in the face of loss — Dr. Daniel Cowell
This book was so many years in the making that it almost never got written. So says its 92-year-old author and longtime psychiatrist and counselor, Daniel Cowell, M.D. Dr. Cowell spent 26 years in U.S. Public Health Service, which included high level positions at the National […]
- Whether we have school-age children or not, everyone should have a stake in education of the next generation — cdow.org/sayyes
“This is a good investment in the common good of our Catholic children and that of our Catholic schools. The opportunity is here to try it. It is up to us to miss it. Whether we have school-age children at home or not, everyone should have a stake in the education of the next […]
- Large group of priests, friends and family turnout for Father William F. Graney funeral Mass
More than a dozen priests from the Diocese of Wilmington joined a large turnout at the funeral Mass for Father William F. Graney Nov. 4 at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Wilmington. Father Graney, 82, had previously been pastor at the parish. He died Oct. 24. He was born in […]


