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.
- HAPPY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK: St. Anthony of Padua second-grade students celebrate with their photo on the cover of this week’s Dialog
We try not to toot our own horn around here, but the photo on this Facebook post caught our eye. These second graders at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School are posing with the Jan. 23 Catholic Schools Week edition of The Dialog. Why? Because the photograph on the cover of the […]
- Catholic Schools Week (delayed, rescheduled, abbreviated) got energetic start three days late in Diocese of Wilmington — Photo gallery
It was a clunky start to Catholic Schools Week, through no fault of energized students and staff at schools throughout the Diocese of Wilmington. You can thank the snow and ever-present ice floes that followed. Through most of the diocese, it went like this: Monday, snow day. No […]
- 2026 high school musical performances, running February through May, set for Diocese of Wilmington
It’s not spring yet, and it certainly doesn’t feel like it outside, but high school musicals for the spring semester begin next month in the Diocese of Wilmington. As usual, Padua Academy kicks off the fun this season with the musical “Newsies.” Based on the 1992 motion […]


