Six-Flags Over Colorado’s Catholicism
I was baptized, confirmed, worked as a city paramedic, and was later ordained a Catholic priest in the city limits of Denver, Colorado. Amazingly, what would one day be the city limits of Denver was originally under the jurisdiction of at least six apostolic territories due to shifting Catholic boundaries. (I am not here writing about different bishops. Denver has had eight ordinaries—three bishops and five archbishops—since its foundation as a diocese in 1868.) Rather, I am writing here that the land of northern Colorado (specifically Denver) was found under many different dioceses as ecclesiastical borders shifted. In my seminary (also in Denver) we took a class on the history of [...]