Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Las Vegas
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The Archdiocese of Las Vegas (Latin: Archidiœcesis Campensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in southern Nevada, United States.
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Archdiocese of Las Vegas Archidiœcesis Campensis | |
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 Guardian Angel Cathedral | |
 Coat of arms | |
| Location | |
| Country |  United States |
| Territory | Counties of Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Nye, and White Pine |
| Ecclesiastical province | Las Vegas |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 39,688 sq mi (102,790 km2) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2018) 2,263,946 620,000 [1] (27.4%) |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established |
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| Cathedral | Guardian Angel Cathedral |
| Patron saint | |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Archbishop | George Leo Thomas |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Gregory W. Gordon |
| Judicial Vicar | Robert M. Herbst |
| Bishops emeritus | Joseph A. Pepe |
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| Website | |
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The seat of the archdiocese is Guardian Angel Cathedral in Las Vegas. The see had been a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of San Francisco from its creation in 1995 until 2023, when Las Vegas was elevated as a metropolitan see. The Archdiocese of Las Vegas has two suffragan sees in its ecclesiastical province: the Dioceses of Reno and Salt Lake City.[3]