Catholic Standard

Official weekly newspaper for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington

Catholic Standard

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Type	Weekly newspaper (Thursday)
Owner(s)	Carroll Publishing Company
Publisher	Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory
Founded	1951; 73 years ago (1951)
Language	English
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Circulation	51,000^[1]
Sister newspapers	El Pregonero
ISSN	0411-2741
OCLC number	11760218
Website	www.cathstan.org

The Catholic Standard, founded in 1951, is the official weekly newspaper for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.^[2]^[3]

One of two newspapers published by Carroll Publishing Company, the Catholic Standard serves the nearly 600,000 Catholics living in the nation's capital and the five surrounding the Maryland counties of Calvert, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's, and St. Mary's. Its sister publication, El Pregonero, is the D.C. area's oldest Spanish-language weekly. The publisher of both newspapers is the Archbishop of Washington, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, whose weekly column "What I Have Seen and Heard" appears in both papers and on both websites. The newspaper circulates approximately 46,000 copies each week, mostly delivered by U.S. mail to subscribers and parishes of the archdiocese.

Prior to the Catholic Standard's founding in 1951, Catholics in the Archdiocese of Washington were served by a regional edition of the Catholic Review, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The Catholic Standard's founding editor was Father Philip Hannan, who went on to become an auxiliary bishop in Washington and the archbishop of New Orleans.

Footnotes

^ "ANR, District of Columbia" (PDF). ANR. Retrieved February 27, 2020.
^ About Us Archived 2010-09-10 at the Wayback Machine webpage. Catholic Standard website. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
^ "Catholic Standard". Library of Congress. Retrieved February 15, 2020.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington

Ordinaries

Archbishops: Michael Joseph Curley; Patrick O'Boyle; William Wakefield Baum; James Aloysius Hickey; Theodore McCarrick; Donald Wuerl; Wilton Daniel Gregory

Auxiliaries: John Michael McNamara; Patrick Joseph McCormick; Philip Hannan; William Joseph McDonald; John Selby Spence; Edward John Herrmann; Thomas William Lyons; Eugene Antonio Marino; Thomas C. Kelly; Álvaro Corrada del Río; William G. Curlin; Leonard Olivier; William E. Lori; Kevin Farrell; Francisco González Valer, SF; Martin Holley; Barry C. Knestout; Mario E. Dorsonville; Roy Edward Campbell; Michael William Fisher; Juan Esposito-Garcia; Evelio Menjivar-Ayala

Churches
and parishes

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle

Parish churches: Sacred Heart Church, Bowie; St. Ambrose Church, Cheverly; St. Francis Xavier Church, Compton; St. Mary Church, Newport; St. Ignatius Church, Oxon Hill; St. Ignatius Church, Port Tobacco; St. Mary Church, Rockville; St. Ignatius Church, St. Inigoes; Holy Trinity Church, Washington; Immaculate Conception Church, Washington; St. Aloysius Church, Washington; St. Anthony of Padua Church, Washington; St. Augustine Church, Washington; St. Patrick's Church, Washington; St. Peter's Church, Washington; St. Stephen Martyr Church, Washington; Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Solomons; St. John the Baptist, Silver Spring; St. John the Evangelist, Silver Spring; Our Lady, Queen of Poland and St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish